Identification of genes in an extraintestinal isolate of Escherichia coli with increased expression after exposure to human urine

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 67, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 5306-5314

  Russo, Thomas A ^a,b,c   Carlino, Ulrike B ^a,b   Mong, Andrew ^a,b   Jodush, Stephen T ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^c Division of Infectious Diseases   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0032851211     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.67.10.5306-5314.1999     Document Type: Article

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