The Yersinia high-pathogenicity island and iron-uptake systems in clinical isolates of Escherichia coli

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 52, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 637-642

  Koczura, Ryszard ^a   Kaznowski, Adam ^a  

^a ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROBACTIN; ENTEROCHELIN; HAPTOGLOBIN; HEMOGLOBIN; LACTOFERRIN; TRANSFERRIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; IRON TRANSPORT; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; YERSINIA;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ENTEROBACTIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES, BACTERIAL; HEMOLYSIS; HUMANS; HYDROXAMIC ACIDS; IRON; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHENOLS; SIDEROPHORES; THIAZOLES; YERSINIA;

EID: 0042529178     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.05219-0     Document Type: Article

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