Nitazoxanide inhibits biofilm production and hemagglutination by enteroaggregative Escherichia coli strains by blocking assembly of AafA fimbriae

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1526-1533

  Shamir, Eliah R ^a,b   Warthan, Michelle ^a   Brown, Sareena P ^a   Nataro, James P ^c   Guerrant, Richard L ^a   Hoffman, Paul S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b University of Virginia   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BALTIMORE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; GLUCOSE; NITAZOXANIDE;

AGGREGATIVE ADHERENCE FIMBRIA VARIANT II; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOFILM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; ENTEROAGGREGATIVE ESCHERICHIA COLI; FIMBRIA; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HEMAGGLUTINATION INHIBITION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ADHESINS, ESCHERICHIA COLI; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOFILMS; CHILD; DIARRHEA; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; HEMAGGLUTINATION; HUMANS; MUTATION; THIAZOLES; VIRULENCE;

EID: 77950143213     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.01279-09     Document Type: Article

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