Expression of two distinct types of pili by a hospital-acquired Enterococcus faecium isolate

Microbiology

Volumn 154, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 3212-3223

  Hendrickx, Antoni P A ^a   Bonten, Marc J M ^a   van Luit Asbroek, Miranda ^a   Schapendonk, Claudia M E ^a   Kragten, Angela H M ^a   Willems, Rob J L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN PILA; PROTEIN PILB; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL DNA; FIMBRIA PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; OXIDOREDUCTASE; PILB PROTEIN, BACTERIA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM PILUS; CELL MIGRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; GENE CLUSTER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHASE TRANSITION; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; CROSS INFECTION; FIMBRIA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TEMPERATURE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; PILA; POSIBACTERIA;

BACTERIAL ADHESION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CROSS INFECTION; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; OXIDOREDUCTASES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 55549125910     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.2008/020891-0     Document Type: Article

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