Autotransporter Genes pic and tsh Are Associated with Escherichia coli Strains That Cause Acute Pyelonephritis and Are Expressed during Urinary Tract Infection

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 593-597

  Heimer, Susan R ^a   Rasko, David A ^b   Lockatell, C Virginia ^a   Johnson, David E ^a,c   Mobley, Harry L T ^a  

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

^b J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c Department of Veteran Affairs ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE PYELONEPHRITIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CELL FRACTIONATION; CFT073 GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PIC GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPERNATANT; TSH GENE; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADHESINS, ESCHERICHIA COLI; ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HEMAGGLUTININS; MICE; MICE, INBRED CBA; POLYSACCHARIDE-LYASES; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; PYELONEPHRITIS; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS; URINE; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0348141893     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.72.1.593-597.2004     Document Type: Article

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