Characterization of a novel chaperone/usher fimbrial operon present on KpGI-5, a methionine tRNA gene-associated genomic island in Klebsiella pneumoniae

BMC Microbiology

Volumn 12, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Van Aartsen, Jon J ^a   Stahlhut, Steen G ^b   Harrison, Ewan M ^a   Crosatti, Marialuisa ^a   Ou, Hong Yu ^c   Krogfelt, Karen A ^b   Struve, Carsten ^b   Rajakumar, Kumar ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

^c Shanghai Jiao Tong University   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF LEICESTER NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAPERONE; TRANSFER RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BIOFILM; CELL ADHESION; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FIM2 GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOMIC ISLAND; IN VITRO STUDY; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LUNG INFECTION; MOUSE; NEUTROPENIA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PNEUMONIA; SEPSIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL LOAD; BASE COMPOSITION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; GENOMIC ISLANDS; HUMANS; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LIVER; LUNG; MICE; MOLECULAR CHAPERONES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERON; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; RNA, TRANSFER, MET; SEPSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; URINARY TRACT; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); KLEBSIELLA; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MURINAE;

EID: 84862185614     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2180-12-59     Document Type: Article

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