Molecular basis of commensalism in the urinary tract: Low virulence or virulence attenuation?

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 695-703

  Zdziarski, Jaroslaw ^a   Svanborg, Catharina ^b   Wullt, Björn ^c   Hacker, Jörg ^a   Dobrindt, Ulrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASYMPTOMATIC BACTERIURIA; BACTERIAL STRAIN; COMMENSALISM; DNA MICROARRAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DELETION; GENE LOSS; GENE MUTATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME SIZE; MICROBIAL ATTENUATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE VIRULENCE; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; UROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 39149129083     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.01215-07     Document Type: Article

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