Escherichia coli constructs expressing human or porcine enterotoxins induce identical diarrheal diseases in a piglet infection model

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 74, Issue 18, 2008, Pages 5832-5837

  Zhang, Weiping ^a   Robertson, Donald C ^b   Zhang, Chengxian ^a   Bai, Wei ^a   Zhao, Mojun ^a   Francis, David H ^a  

^a SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ENTEROTOXINS; HEAT-STABLE ENTEROTOXIN; INFECTION MODELS;

HEALTH;

ENTEROTOXIN; VACCINE; BACTERIAL TOXIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; HEAT LABILE ENTEROTOXIN, E COLI; HEAT STABLE TOXIN (E COLI); HEAT-LABILE ENTEROTOXIN, E COLI;

BIOTECHNOLOGY; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; DIARRHEAL DISEASE; HOMINID; INOCULATION; PIG; TOXIN; VACCINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FIMBRIA; GENE SEQUENCE; GNOTOBIOTICS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PIGLET; TOXIN SYNTHESIS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; BACTERIAL GENE; BIOSYNTHESIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENTEROBACTER INFECTION; ENTEROTOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; GERMFREE ANIMAL; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PLASMID; SWINE; SWINE DISEASE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; SUS;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; DIARRHEA; ENTEROTOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ENTEROTOXINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, BACTERIAL; GERM-FREE LIFE; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; MODELS, ANIMAL; PLASMIDS; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES;

EID: 52649125764     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00893-08     Document Type: Article

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