Citrobacter rodentium virulence in mice associates with bacterial load and the type III effector NleE

Microbes and Infection

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 400-407

  Wickham, Mark E ^a   Lupp, Claudia ^a   Vázquez, Alejandra ^b   Mascarenhas, Mariola ^c   Coburn, Bryan ^a   Coombes, Brian K ^a,d   Karmali, Mohamed A ^c   Puente, José L ^a,b   Deng, Wanyin ^a   Brett Finlay, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b INSTITUTO DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^c HEALTH CANADA   (Canada)

^d MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bacteria; Bacterial infections; Virulence

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN NLEE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CITROBACTER RODENTIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; IN VIVO STUDY; MIXED INFECTION; MORTALITY; MOUSE; MUTANT; NLEC GENE; NLED GENE; NLEE GENE; NLEF GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY ISLAND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHIGA TOXIN PRODUCING ESCHERICHIA COLI; WILD TYPE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CITROBACTER RODENTIUM; COLON; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; GENOMIC ISLANDS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CITROBACTER RODENTIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MUS;

EID: 33847399235     PISSN: 12864579     EISSN: 1769714X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.micinf.2006.12.016     Document Type: Article

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