Signature-tagged mutagenesis in a chicken infection model leads to the identification of a novel avian pathogenic Escherichia coli fimbrial adhesin

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2009, Pages

  Antão, Esther Maria ^a   Ewers, Christa ^a   Gürlebeck, Doreen ^a   Preisinger, Rudolf ^b   Homeier, Timo ^a,d   Li, Ganwu ^c   Wieler, Lothar H ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b LOHMANN TIERZUCHT GMBH   (Germany)

^c IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AVIAN PATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FIBROBLAST; GENE CLUSTER; GENE DELETION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; KIDNEY EPITHELIUM; LUNG INFECTION; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; ANIMAL; BIRD; DOG; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; FIMBRIA; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION;

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

ADHESINS, ESCHERICHIA COLI; ANIMALS; BIRDS; CHICKENS; DOGS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FIBROBLASTS; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; GENE DELETION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATION;

EID: 70649105630     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0007796     Document Type: Article

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