Correlation between virulence factors and in vitro biofilm formation by Escherichia coli strains

Microbial Pathogenesis

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 86-91

  Naves, Plínio ^a,b   del Prado, Gema ^a   Huelves, Lorena ^a   Gracia, Matilde ^a   Ruiz, Vicente ^a   Blanco, Jorge ^c   Dahbi, Ghizlane ^c   Blanco, Miguel ^c   del Carmen Ponte, María ^a   Soriano, Francisco ^a  

^a Hospital UniversitarioFundación Jiménez Díaz   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDADE ESTADUAL DE GOIÁS   (Brazil)

^c Facultad de Veterinaria   (Spain)

Author keywords

Biofilm; Escherichia coli; Virulence factors

Indexed keywords

ADHESIN; AMOXICILLIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; BACTERIAL TOXIN; CEFOTAXIME; GENTAMICIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; MANNOSE; POLYSTYRENE; SIDEROPHORE; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ALLELE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BIOFILM; CELL INVASION; CELL SURFACE; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CLUSTER; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HEMAGGLUTINATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IN VITRO STUDY; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN VARIANT; SEROTYPING; THICKNESS;

BACTERIAL ADHESION; BIOFILMS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 47049120924     PISSN: 08824010     EISSN: 10961208     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.micpath.2008.03.003     Document Type: Article

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