Atypical enteropathogenic Escherichia coli that contains functional locus of enterocyte effacement genes can be attaching-and-effacing negative in cultured epithelial cells

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 79, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1833-1841

  Rocha, Sérgio P D ^a,b   Abe, Cecilia M ^a   Sperandio, Vanessa ^b   Bando, Silvia Y ^a,c   Elias, Waldir P ^a  

^a INSTITUTO BUTANTAN   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; CELL ADHESION; CELL STRAIN CACO 2; CELL STRAIN HT29; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; EPITHELIUM CELL; HELA CELL; HEP 2 CELL; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; INTESTINE CELL; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

CELL ADHESION; CELL LINE; ENTEROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; EPITHELIAL CELLS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MICROBIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIRULENCE;

EID: 79955633441     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00693-10     Document Type: Article

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