Isolation and characterization of cytotoxic, aggregative citrobacter freundii

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Bai, Li ^a   Xia, Shengli ^a   Lan, Ruiting ^b   Liu, Liyun ^a   Ye, Changyun ^a   Wang, Yiting ^a   Jin, Dong ^a   Cui, Zhigang ^a   Jing, Huaiqi ^a   Xiong, Yanwen ^a   Bai, Xuemei ^a   Sun, Hui ^a   Zhang, Jin ^a   Wang, Lei ^c   Xu, Jianguo ^a  

^a CHINESE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; VIRULENCE FACTOR; BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CELL DEATH; CITROBACTER FREUNDII; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; ENZYME RELEASE; FECES; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMIC ISLAND; HEP 2 CELL; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INSECT; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; TYPE VI SECRETION SYSTEM; CELL ADHESION; CELL LINE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DIARRHEA; GENETICS; GOAT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALIA; CAPRA HIRCUS; CITROBACTER FREUNDII; HEXAPODA;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL ADHESION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL ADHESION; CELL LINE; CITROBACTER FREUNDII; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DIARRHEA; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; FECES; GOATS; HUMANS; L-LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 84863373086     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0033054     Document Type: Article

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