Specific strains of Escherichia coli are pathogenic for the endometrium of cattle and cause pelvic inflammatory disease in cattle and mice

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Sheldon, I Martin ^a   Rycroft, Andrew N ^b   Dogan, Belgin ^c   Craven, Melanie ^c   Bromfield, John J ^a   Chandler, Alyssa ^c   Roberts, Mark H ^a   Price, Sian B ^b   Gilbert, Robert O ^c   Simpson, Kenneth W ^c  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^c Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 8; PROSTAGLANDIN E2; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 4; YERSINIABACTIN; BACTERIAL DNA; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; TLR4 PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CATTLE; ENDOMETRIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MACROPHAGE; MOUSE; MYOMETRIUM; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; STROMA CELL; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; CATTLE DISEASE; CELL CULTURE; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; CLASSIFICATION; CYTOLOGY; ENDOMETRITIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOUSE MUTANT; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA; SECRETION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; UTERUS;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BOS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MUS;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; CELLS, CULTURED; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENDOMETRITIS; ENDOMETRIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; INTERLEUKIN-8; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; PHYLOGENY; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA TECHNIQUE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTOR 4; UTERUS;

EID: 77949426520     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0009192     Document Type: Article

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