Differential PilA pilus assembly by a hospital-acquired and a community-derived Enterococcus faecium isolate

Microbiology

Volumn 156, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 2649-2659

  Hendrickx, Antoni P A ^a,b   Schapendonk, Claudia M E ^a   Van Luit Asbroek, Miranda ^a   Bonten, Marc J M ^a   Van Schaik, Willem ^a   Willems, Rob J L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; MUTANT PROTEIN; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; PROTEIN PILA; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; SORTASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM PILUS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; GENE CLUSTER; GENETIC CODE; ISOLATION PROCEDURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; WESTERN BLOTTING;

COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; TEMPERATURE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; PILA;

EID: 77956359693     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.041392-0     Document Type: Article

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