Correlation between in vivo biofilm formation and virulence gene expression in Escherichia coli O104:H4

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Safadi, Rim Al ^a   Abu Ali, Galeb S ^b   Sloup, Rudolph E ^a   Rudrik, James T ^c   Waters, Christopher M ^a   Eaton, Kathryn A ^d   Manning, Shannon D ^a  

^a Michigan State University ^*  (United States)

^b CENTER FOR DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

^c MICHIGAN DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY HEALTH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXOPOLYSACCHARIDE; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BIOFILM; CELL AGGREGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENTEROAGGREGATIVE ESCHERICHIA COLI; EPIDEMIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI O104; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; SHIGA TOXIN PRODUCING ESCHERICHIA COLI; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BIOFILMS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; KIDNEY; MICE; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84864375015     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0041628     Document Type: Article

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