Escherichia coli strains with the capacity for long-term persistence in the bowel microbiota carry the potentially genotoxic pks island

Microbial Pathogenesis

Volumn 53, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 180-182

  Nowrouzian, Forough L ^a   Oswald, Eric ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^c INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

Cancer; Colibactin; E. coli; Genotoxin; Intestinal colonization; Persistence; Pks island

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; ELECTROPHORESIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FIMH GENE; GENETIC TRAIT; GENOMIC ISLAND; GENOTOXICITY; HLYA GENE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; MALX GENE; MICROFLORA; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PAPC GENE; PATHOGENICITY ISLAND; PHYLOGENY; PKS ISLAND; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; USP GENE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FECES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENOMIC ISLANDS; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; METAGENOME; MUTAGENS; PEPTIDES; PHYLOGENY; POLYKETIDES;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84865173667     PISSN: 08824010     EISSN: 10961208     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.micpath.2012.05.011     Document Type: Article

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