The chicken as a natural model for extraintestinal infections caused by avian pathogenic Escherichia coli (APEC)

Microbial Pathogenesis

Volumn 45, Issue 5-6, 2008, Pages 361-369

  Antão, Esther Maria ^a   Glodde, Susanne ^a   Li, Ganwu ^a   Sharifi, Reza ^c   Homeier, Timo ^a   Laturnus, Claudia ^a   Diehl, Ines ^a   Bethe, Astrid ^a   Philipp, Hans C ^b   Preisinger, Rudolf ^b   Wieler, Lothar H ^a   Ewers, Christa ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b LOHMANN TIERZUCHT GMBH   (Germany)

^c Institute of Animal Breeding and Genetics   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chicken; Escherichia coli; Extraintestinal infection; Infection model

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AVIAN PATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BLOOD FLOW; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; IMMUNITY; IN VIVO STUDY; INTESTINE INFECTION; LUNG ALVEOLUS EPITHELIUM; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRULENCE;

ANIMAL STRUCTURES; ANIMALS; CHICKENS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENTEROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; POULTRY DISEASES; VIRULENCE;

AVES; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 56549089637     PISSN: 08824010     EISSN: 10961208     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.micpath.2008.08.005     Document Type: Article

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