Type 1 fimbriae and extracellular polysaccharides are preeminent uropathogenic Escherichia coli virulence determinants in the murine urinary tract

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 1079-1093

  Bahrani Mougeot, Farah K ^a   Buckles, Eric L ^a   Lockatell, C V ^a   Hebel, J R ^a   Johnson, D E ^a,b   Tang, C M ^c   Donnenberg, M S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS   (United States)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; BACTERIAL POLYSACCHARIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BLADDER; CARBOHYDRATE SYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; FIMBRIA; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INSERTION; GENE LIBRARY; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; KIDNEY; METABOLISM; MOUSE; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSPOSON; URINALYSIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DNA PRIMERS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MICE; MICE, INBRED CBA; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MUTAGENESIS; PREGNANCY; URINARY TRACT; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; INSERTION SEQUENCES; MURINAE; NEGIBACTERIA; TRANSPOSONS;

EID: 0036039736     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2002.03078.x     Document Type: Article

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