A new O-antigen gene cluster has a key role in the virulence of the Escherichia coli meningitis clone O45:K1:H7

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 189, Issue 23, 2007, Pages 8528-8536

  Plainvert, Céline ^a   Bidet, Philippe ^a   Peigne, Chantai ^a   Barbe, Valérie ^b   Médigue, Claudine ^c   Denamur, Erick ^a,d   Bingen, Edouard ^a   Bonacorsi, Stéphane ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^b CENTRE NATIONAL DE SÉQUENÇAGE   (France)

^c Genoscope   (France)

^d INSERM   (France)

^e HÔPITAL ROBERT DEBRÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

O ANTIGEN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIGEN FUNCTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CLUSTER; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; MENINGITIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION; O ANTIGENS; PHYLOGENY; VIRULENCE;

ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; RATTUS;

EID: 36749067224     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.01013-07     Document Type: Article

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