Bundle-forming pilus locus of Aeromonas veronii bv. Sobria

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1351-1360

  Hadi, Nahal ^a   Yang, Qin ^a   Barnett, Timothy C ^b   Tabei, S Mohammed B ^c   Kirov, Sylvia M ^b   Shaw, Jonathan G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^c SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BUNDLE FORMING PILUS PROTEIN; HEMAGGLUTININ; PILIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; FIMBRIA PROTEIN;

AEROMONAS SOBRIA; AEROMONAS VERONII; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BIOFILM; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; AEROMONAS; BACTERIAL GENE; CELL LINE; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; EPITHELIUM CELL; FIMBRIA; GENETICS; HUMAN; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROMOTER REGION;

AEROMONAS; BACTERIAL ADHESION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOFILMS; CELL LINE; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84860817260     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.06304-11     Document Type: Article

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