Fimbrial adhesins from extraintestinal Escherichia coli

Environmental Microbiology Reports

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 628-640

  Klemm, Per ^a   Hancock, Viktoria ^a   Schembri, Mark A ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 77956231643     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17582229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1758-2229.2010.00166.x     Document Type: Review

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