In vivo expression of the heat stable (estA) and heat labile (eltB) toxin genes of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC)

Microbes and Infection

Volumn 8, Issue 12-13, 2006, Pages 2797-2802

  Sjöling, Åsa ^a   Qadri, Firdausi ^b   Nicklasson, Matilda ^a   Begum, Yasmin Ara ^b   Wiklund, Gudrun ^a   Svennerholm, Ann Mari ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b ICDDR B Centre for Health and Population Research   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

ETEC; Gene expression; In vivo; LT; ST

Indexed keywords

ESCHERICHIA COLI ENTEROTOXIN; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN SUBUNIT;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; DOWN REGULATION; ENTEROTOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENCE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC CODE; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LIQUID; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; UPREGULATION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; BACTERIAL TOXINS; DIARRHEA; ENTEROTOXINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FECES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, MESSENGER; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 33751107480     PISSN: 12864579     EISSN: 1769714X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.micinf.2006.08.011     Document Type: Article

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