Role of Intimin and Bundle-Forming Pili in Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli Adhesion to Pediatric Intestinal Tissue in Vitro

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1570-1578

  Hicks, Susan ^a   Frankel, Gad ^b   Kaper, James B ^c   Dougan, Gordon ^b   Phillips, Alan D ^a  

^a ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c Center for Vaccine Development   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESIN; CARRIER PROTEIN; EAEA PROTEIN, E COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; CHILD; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; FIMBRIA; HUMAN; INFANT; INTESTINE MUCOSA; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SMALL INTESTINE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ADHESINS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL ADHESION; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FEMALE; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; INFANT; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; INTESTINE, SMALL; MALE;

EID: 0032038644     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.66.4.1570-1578.1998     Document Type: Article

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