In vivo interactions of rabbit enteropathogenic Escherichia coli O103 with its host: An electron microscopic and histopathologic study

Microbes and Infection

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 5-16

  Heczko, Ursula ^a,b   Abe, Akio ^a,c   Finlay, B Brett ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

^c KITASATO INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adherence; Diarrhea; Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli; Mucus; Pedestal; Peyer's patches

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; ENTEROBACTER INFECTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MICROVILLUS; MUCUS SECRETION; NONHUMAN; PEYER PATCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROBACTER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; PSEUDOPODA;

EID: 0033964324     PISSN: 12864579     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1286-4579(00)00291-4     Document Type: Article

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