Insights into a multidrug resistant Escherichia coli pathogen of the globally disseminated ST131 lineage: Genome analysis and virulence mechanisms

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Totsika, Makrina ^a   Beatson, Scott A ^a   Sarkar, Sohinee ^a   Phan, Minh Duy ^a   Petty, Nicola K ^a   Bachmann, Nathan ^a   Szubert, Marek ^a   Sidjabat, Hanna E ^b   Paterson, David L ^b   Upton, Mathew ^c   Schembri, Mark A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA LACTAMASE CTX M; CEPHALOSPORINASE; CIPROFLOXACIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL MUTATION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BLADDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; FIMB GENE; FIMBRIA; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE INSERTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOUSE; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TRANSPOSON; UNITED KINGDOM; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; UROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ANIMAL; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIAL GENOME; DISEASE MODEL; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG EFFECT; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PATHOGENICITY; PHYLOGENY; PLASMID; URINE; VIRULENCE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; AUSTRALIA; BASE SEQUENCE; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INTERNATIONALITY; MICE; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; MUTATION; OPERON; PHYLOGENY; PLASMIDS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; URINARY BLADDER; URINE; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 80055045142     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0026578     Document Type: Article

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