Proteus mirabilis fimbriae (PMF) are important for both bladder and kidney colonization in mice

Microbiology

Volumn 149, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 3231-3237

  Zunino, Pablo ^a   Sosa, Vanessa ^a   Allen, Andrew G ^a   Preston, Andrew ^b   Schlapp, Geraldine ^a   Maskell, Duncan J ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOLÓGICAS CLEMENTE ESTABLE   (Uruguay)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BLADDER DISEASE; BLADDER EPITHELIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FIMBRIA; GENE EXPRESSION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; KIDNEY EPITHELIUM; KIDNEY INFECTION; MOUSE; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEUS MIRABILIS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MIRABILIS; NEGIBACTERIA; PROTEUS MIRABILIS;

EID: 0345306168     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.26534-0     Document Type: Article

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