Lateral flagella are required for increased cell adherence, invasion and biofilm formation by Aeromonas spp.

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 224, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 77-83

  Gavín, Rosalina ^a   Merino, Susana ^a   Altarriba, Maria ^a   Canals, Rocío ^a   Shaw, Jonathan G ^b   Tomás, Juan M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adhesion to and invasion of Hep 2 cells; Lateral flagellum; Mesophilic Aeromonas

Indexed keywords

DNA;

AEROMONAS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOFILM; CELL ADHESION; CELL HETEROGENEITY; CELL INVASION; CELL SURFACE; CILIARY MOTILITY; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; EUKARYOTIC CELL; FLAGELLUM; GENE SEQUENCE; HEP 2 CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; MICROSCOPY; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; WILD TYPE;

AEROMONAS; AEROMONAS PUNCTATA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0038647080     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(03)00418-X     Document Type: Article

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