Specific roles of the iroBCDEN genes in virulence of an avian pathogenic Escherichia coli O78 strain and in production of salmochelins

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 76, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 3539-3549

  Caza, Mélissa ^a   Lépine, François ^a   Milot, Sylvain ^a   Dozois, Charles M ^a  

^a INRS INSTITUT ARMAND FRAPPIER   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SIDEROPHORE; BACTERIAL DNA; ENTEROCHELIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AVIAN PATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; GENE SEQUENCE; GLYCOSYLATION; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRULENCE; AIR SAC; ANIMAL; BACTERIAL COUNT; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CHICKEN; DNA SEQUENCE; ENTEROBACTER INFECTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DELETION; GENE ORDER; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETICS; HEART MUSCLE; LIVER; LUNG; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY; SPLEEN;

AIR SACS; ANIMALS; CHICKENS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, LIQUID; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENTEROBACTIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; GENE ORDER; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; LIVER; LUNG; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MYOCARDIUM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPLEEN; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 48849096801     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00455-08     Document Type: Article

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