The plasmid of Escherichia coli strain S88 (O45:K1:H7) that causes neonatal meningitis is closely related to avian pathogenic E. coli plasmids and is associated with high-level bacteremia in a neonatal rat meningitis model

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 77, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 2272-2284

  Peigne, Chantal ^a   Bidet, Philippe ^a   Mahjoub Messai, Farah ^a   Plainvert, Céline ^a   Barbe, Valérie ^b   Médigue, Claudine ^c   Frapy, Eric ^d   Nassif, Xavier ^d   Denamur, Erick ^a,d   Bingen, Edouard ^a   Bonacorsi, Stéphane ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^b CENTRE NATIONAL DE SÉQUENÇAGE   (France)

^c Genoscope   (France)

^d INSERM   (France)

^e HÔPITAL ROBERT DEBRÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROBACTIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; SALMOCHELIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL DNA; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FOWL; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; IRON TRANSPORT; MUTANT; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; UROSEPSIS; ANIMAL; BACTERIAL COUNT; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; FRANCE; GENETICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MENINGITIS; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NEWBORN DISEASE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SYNTENY; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BACTEREMIA; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FRANCE; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, NEWBORN, DISEASES; MENINGITIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PLASMIDS; RATS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SYNTENY; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 66549100507     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.01333-08     Document Type: Article

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