Relationship between the Tsh autotransporter and pathogenicity of avian Escherichia coli and localization and analysis of the tsh genetic region

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 68, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 4145-4154

  Dozois, Charles M ^a   Dho Moulin, Maryvonne ^b   Brée, Annie ^b   Fairbrother, John M ^c   Desautels, Clarisse ^c   Curtiss III, Roy ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CEMAGREF   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; HEMAGGLUTININ;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; DNA SEQUENCE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE LOCATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY; PERICARDITIS; PERIHEPATITIS; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPTICEMIA;

ADHESINS, ESCHERICHIA COLI; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOOD BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; CHICKENS; COLICINS; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; GENES, BACTERIAL; HEMAGGLUTININS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PLASMIDS; POULTRY DISEASES; RESTRICTION MAPPING; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0033932231     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.68.7.4145-4154.2000     Document Type: Article

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