Pathogenicity-associated islands in extraintestinal pathogenic Escherichia coli are fitness elements involved in intestinal colonization

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 192, Issue 19, 2010, Pages 4885-4893

  Diard, Médéric ^a,b   Garry, Louis ^a   Selva, Marjorie ^a   Mosser, Thomas ^a   Denamur, Erick ^a   Matic, Ivan ^a  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BIOFILM; COMMENSALISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRAINTESTINAL PATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; INTESTINE FLORA; INTESTINE MOTILITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; PATHOGENICITY ISLAND; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPTICEMIA; STRESS; ANIMAL; BACTERIAL GENOME; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETICS; GENOMIC ISLAND; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INTESTINE; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VIRULENCE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; MURINAE;

ANIMALS; BIOFILMS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMIC ISLANDS; INTESTINES; MICE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS; VIRULENCE;

EID: 77957374567     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00804-10     Document Type: Article

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