Mutator natural Escherichia coli isolates have an unusual virulence phenotype

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 9-14

  Picard, B ^a   Duriez, P ^a   Gouriou, S ^a   Matic, I ^a   Denamur, E ^a   Taddei, F ^a  

^a HÔPITAL ROBERT DEBRÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHYL GROUP; RIFAMPICIN;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DNA REPAIR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOUSE; MUTATION RATE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BASE PAIR MISMATCH; DNA REPAIR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; MICE; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0035159538     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.69.1.9-14.2001     Document Type: Article

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