Development of intracellular bacterial communities of uropathogenic Escherichia coli depends on type 1 pili

Cellular Microbiology

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 2230-2241

  Wright, Kelly J ^a   Seed, Patrick C ^b   Hultgren, Scott J ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANHYDROTETRACYCLINE; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL FLORA; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM PILUS; BIOFILM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REPLICATION; GENE REPRESSION; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; UROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL ADHESION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FEMALE; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; GUINEA PIGS; HEMAGGLUTINATION; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS; UROTHELIUM;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); COCCOIDEA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MURINAE;

EID: 34547909227     PISSN: 14625814     EISSN: 14625822     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-5822.2007.00952.x     Document Type: Article

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