Multiple insertional events, restricted by the genetic background, have led to acquisition of pathogenicity island IIJ96-like domains among Escherichia coli strains of different clinical origins

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 73, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 4081-4087

  Bidet, Philippe ^a   Bonacorsi, Stéphane ^a   Clermont, Olivier ^a   De Montille, Caroline ^a   Brahimi, Naima ^a   Bingen, Edouard ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^b HÔPITAL ROBERT DEBRÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCATION; MENINGITIS; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PATHOGENICITY ISLAND; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RIBOTYPING; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

ADHESINS, ESCHERICHIA COLI; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; GENOMIC ISLANDS; HUMANS; INFANT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIBOTYPING; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 21544456080     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.73.7.4081-4087.2005     Document Type: Article

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