Fim operon variation in the emergence of Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli: An evolutionary and functional analysis

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 273, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 58-63

  Shaikh, Nurmohammad ^a   Holt, Nicholas J ^a   Johnson, James R ^b   Tarr, Phillip I ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Evolution; FimH; Pili

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM PILUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROHEMORRHAGIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; GENE CLUSTER; GENE DELETION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADHESINS, ESCHERICHIA COLI; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERON; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE DELETION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 34347395737     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2007.00781.x     Document Type: Article

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