An Escherichia coli asr mutant has decreased fitness during colonization in a mouse model

Research in Microbiology

Volumn 159, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 486-493

  Armalyte, Julija ^a   Šeputiene, Vaida ^a   Melefors, Öjar ^b   Sužiedeliene, Edita ^a  

^a VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

asr gene; Escherichia coli; Mouse intestine colonization; Stress response

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASR GENE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIAL VIABILITY; COMMENSALISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENOTYPE; INCUBATION TIME; INTESTINE FLORA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRESS;

ANIMALS; CULTURE MEDIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE DOSAGE; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; INTESTINES; MICE; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; MUTATION; PEPTIDES;

ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MUS;

EID: 49549123572     PISSN: 09232508     EISSN: 17697123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resmic.2008.06.003     Document Type: Article

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