New adhesin of enteroaggregative Escherichia coli related to the Afa/Dr/AAF family

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 76, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 3281-3292

  Boisen, Nadia ^a   Struve, Carsten ^a   Scheutz, Flemming ^a   Krogfelt, Karen A ^a   Nataro, James P ^b,c  

^a STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

^b University of Maryland School of Medicine Center for Vaccine Development   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PILIN; ADHESIN; AFA 3 PROTEIN, E COLI; AFA-3 PROTEIN, E COLI; AGGREGATIVE ADHERENCE FIMBRIA III, E COLI; DR ADHESIN, E COLI;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENMARK; ENTEROAGGREGATIVE ESCHERICHIA COLI; FIMBRIA; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HEP 2 CELL; HUMAN; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ANIMAL; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BIOFILM; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CATTLE; CELL LINE; CLASSIFICATION; DIARRHEA; ENTEROBACTER INFECTION; ERYTHROCYTE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; GUINEA PIG; HEMAGGLUTINATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; RABBIT;

ADHESINS, ESCHERICHIA COLI; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL ADHESION; BIOFILMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CATTLE; CELL LINE; DENMARK; DIARRHEA; ERYTHROCYTES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; GUINEA PIGS; HEMAGGLUTINATION; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RABBITS;

EID: 46349112181     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.01646-07     Document Type: Article

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