Role of motility and the flhDC operon in Escherichia coli MG1655 colonization of the mouse intestine

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 75, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 3315-3324

  Gauger, Eric J ^a,c   Leatham, Mary P ^a   Mercado Lubo, Regino ^a   Laux, David C ^a   Conway, Tyrrell ^b   Cohen, Paul S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^c MERCK ANIMAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CECUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI MG1655; FLAGELLUM; FLHDC GENE; GENE DELETION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; CECUM; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; INTESTINE, SMALL; INTESTINES; MALE; MICE; OPERON; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

EID: 34447278163     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00052-07     Document Type: Article

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