New insights into the bacterial fitness-associated mechanisms revealed by the characterization of large plasmids of an avian pathogenic E. coli

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Mellata, Melha ^a   Maddux, Jacob T ^a   Nam, Timothy ^a   Thomson, Nicholas ^c   Hauser, Heidi ^c   Stevens, Mark P ^d   Mukhopadhyay, Suman ^e   Sarker, Shameema ^a   Crabbé, Aurélie ^a   Nickerson, Cheryl A ^a,b   Santander, Javier ^a,b   Curtiss III, Roy ^a,b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACID TOLERANCE; ARTICLE; AVIAN PATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOFILM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRAINTESTINAL PATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CLUSTER; GENE SEQUENCE; INTESTINE EPITHELIUM CELL; IRON TRANSPORT; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; PATHOGENICITY; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID; SALMONELLA; SEROTYPE; SUPERNUMERARY CHROMOSOME; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIRD; BIRD DISEASE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CHICKEN; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; GENETICS; IMMUNE EVASION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS;

ANIMALIA; AVES; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); SALMONELLA;

BACTERIAL DNA; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; BASE SEQUENCE; BIRDS; CHICKENS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; GENETIC FITNESS; IMMUNE EVASION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; POULTRY DISEASES; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 84855406698     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0029481     Document Type: Article

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