Virulence plasmid harbored by uropathogenic Escherichia coli functions in acute stages of pathogenesis

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1457-1467

  Cusumano, Corinne K ^a   Hung, Chia S ^a   Chen, Swaine L ^a   Hultgren, Scott J ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTRACHROMOSOMAL DNA; PUTI89; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BIOFILM; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PATHOGENESIS; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; UROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE KNOCKOUT TECHNIQUES; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; OPERON; PLASMIDS; URINARY BLADDER; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS; UROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 77950269123     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.01260-09     Document Type: Article

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