Importance of the ebp (endocarditis-and biofilm-associated pilus) locus in the pathogenesis of Enterococcus faecalis ascending urinary tract infection

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 195, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1671-1677

  Singh, Kavindra V ^a   Nallapareddy, Sreedhar R ^a   Murray, Barbara E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BIOFILM; BLADDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOCARDITIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; FEMALE; INOCULATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PERITONITIS; PLANT GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; WILD TYPE;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, OUTBRED STRAINS; BIOFILMS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; KIDNEY; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; MUTATION; OPERON; PERITONITIS; SEPSIS; URINARY BLADDER; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 34249079398     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/517524     Document Type: Article

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