A double, long polar fimbria mutant of Escherichia coli O157:H7 expresses curli and exhibits reduced in vivo colonization

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 914-920

  Lloyd, Sonja J ^a   Ritchie, Jennifer M ^c,d   Rojas Lopez, Maricarmen ^a   Blumentritt, Carla A ^a   Popov, Vsevolod L ^b   Greenwich, Jennifer L ^c   Waldor, Matthew K ^c   Torres, Alfredo G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

^b University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; CECUM; COLON; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CURLI; DELETION MUTANT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXPERIMENTAL RABBIT; FIMBRIA; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; ILEUM; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INTESTINE EPITHELIUM CELL; LONG POLAR FIMBRIA; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ADHESINS, BACTERIAL; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BACTERIAL ADHESION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CECUM; CELL LINE; CELL SURFACE EXTENSIONS; COLON; EPITHELIAL CELLS; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMANS; ILEUM; RABBITS;

EID: 84857661064     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.05945-11     Document Type: Article

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