Comparative analysis of the locus of enterocyte effacement and its flanking regions

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 77, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 3501-3513

  Müller, Daniel ^a   Benz, Inga ^a   Liebchen, Ariane ^a   Gallitz, Inka ^a   Karch, Helge ^a   Schmidt, M Alexander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CHROMOSOME INSERTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INTESTINE CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENTEROHEMORRHAGIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ENTEROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 67651227317     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00090-09     Document Type: Article

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