Characterization of the binding of diarrheagenic strains of E. coli to plant surfaces and the role of curli in the interaction of the bacteria with alfalfa sprouts

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1235-1242

  Jeter, Cecelia ^a   Matthysse, Ann G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CSGA PROTEIN, E COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN;

ALFALFA; ANIMAL; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; DIARRHEA; ENTEROBACTER INFECTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI K 12; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; MICROBIOLOGY; MUTATION; OPERON; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASMID; SEEDLING; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; ARABIDOPSIS; BACTERIAL ADHESION; DIARRHEA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI K12; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MEDICAGO SATIVA; MUTATION; OPERON; PLASMIDS; SEEDLING; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; AVES; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MEDICAGO SATIVA;

EID: 26944499382     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI-18-1235     Document Type: Article

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