Role of Tir and intimin in the virulence of rabbit enteropathogenic Escherichia coli serotype O103:H2

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 2171-2182

  Marchès, Olivier ^a   Nougayrède, Jean Philippe ^a   Boullier, Séverine ^a   Mainil, Jacques ^b   Charlier, Gérard ^c   Raymond, Isabelle ^a   Pohl, Pierre ^c   Boury, Michèle ^a   De Rycke, Jean ^a   Milon, Alain ^a   Oswald, Eric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^c Ctr d'Etud Rech Veterinaires A   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTIMIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BRUSH BORDER; COMPLEX FORMATION; CYTOSKELETON; EPITHELIUM CELL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CLUSTER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; SEROTYPE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

ACTINS; ADHESINS, BACTERIAL; ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL ADHESION; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELL LINE; CYTOSKELETON; EPITHELIAL CELLS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FECES; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; ILEUM; INTESTINES; KINETICS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; RABBITS; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; TIME FACTORS; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0034018023     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.68.4.2171-2182.2000     Document Type: Article

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