Hemolysin from Shiga toxin-negative Escherichia coli O26 strains injures microvascular endothelium

Microbes and Infection

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 282-290

  Aldick, Thomas ^a   Bielaszewska, Martina ^a   Zhang, Wenlan ^a   Brockmeyer, Jens ^a   Schmidt, Herbert ^b   Friedrich, Alexander W ^a   Kim, Kwang S ^c   Schmidt, M Alexander ^a   Karch, Helge ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adherence; Cytotoxicity; Enterohemorrhagic E. coli hemolysin; Escherichia coli O26; Hemolytic Uremic syndrome; Microvascular endothelial cells

Indexed keywords

HEMOLYSIN; SHIGA TOXIN; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; CELL STRAIN CACO 2; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CYTOLYSIS; CYTOTOXICITY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI O26; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HEMOLYSIS; HEMOLYTIC UREMIC SYNDROME; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOBLOTTING; INTESTINE EPITHELIUM CELL; MICROVASCULATURE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TOXIN ANALYSIS; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM;

BACTERIAL ADHESION; BRAIN; CACO-2 CELLS; CELL LINE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; HEMOLYTIC-UREMIC SYNDROME; HUMANS; INFANT; MICROCIRCULATION; SHIGA TOXIN;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 33847370391     PISSN: 12864579     EISSN: 1769714X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.micinf.2006.12.001     Document Type: Article

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