EspP, a Type V-secreted serine protease of enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157:H7, influences intestinal colonization of calves and adherence to bovine primary intestinal epithelial cells

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 271, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 258-264

  Dziva, Francis ^a   Mahajan, Arvind ^b   Cameron, Pamela ^b   Currie, Carol ^b   McKendrick, Iain J ^c   Wallis, Timothy S ^a   Smith, David G E ^b,d   Stevens, Mark P ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (United Kingdom)

^b MOREDUN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c BIOMATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS SCOTLAND   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adherence; Cattle; Colonization; Escherichia coli; EspP

Indexed keywords

ESCHERICHIA COLI SECRETED PROTEIN V; SERINE PROTEINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CALF (BOVINE); CONTROLLED STUDY; COW; ENTEROHEMORRHAGIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; EPITHELIUM CELL; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; GENE MUTATION; INTESTINE EPITHELIUM; INTESTINE EPITHELIUM CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTYPE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL ADHESION; CATTLE; CELLS, CULTURED; EPITHELIAL CELLS; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; MUTATION; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES;

BOS; BOVINAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 34249044453     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2007.00724.x     Document Type: Article

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