An Escherichia coli MG1655 lipopolysaccharide deep-rough core mutant grows and survives in mouse cecal mucus but fails to colonize the mouse large intestine

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 2142-2152

  Møller, Annette K ^a   Leatham, Mary P ^a   Conway, Tyrrell ^b   Nuijten, Piet J M ^c   De Haan, Louise A M ^c   Krogfelt, Karen A ^d   Cohen, Paul S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^c Intervet International   (Netherlands)

^d STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; BILE SALT; DODECYL SULFATE SODIUM; KANAMYCIN; NITROGEN; NOVOBIOCIN; STREPTOMYCIN;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BIPA GENE; CARBON SOURCE; CECUM; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INSERTION; GENE SEQUENCE; LARGE INTESTINE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATOR GENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; CECUM; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASES; GTP PHOSPHOHYDROLASES; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; INTESTINE, LARGE; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MALE; MICE; MUTATION; PHOSPHOPROTEINS;

EID: 0344837300     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.71.4.2142-2152.2003     Document Type: Article

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