The PavA-like fibronectin-binding protein of enterococcus faecalis, EfbA, Is important for virulence in a mouse model of ascending urinary tract infection

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 206, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 952-960

  Torelli, Riccardo ^a   Serror, Pascale ^c   Bugli, Francesca ^a   Francesco Paroni Sterbini, ^a   Florio, Ada Rita ^a   Stringaro, Annarita ^b   Colone, Marisa ^b   De Carolis, Elena ^a   Martini, Cecilia ^a   Giard, Jean Christophe ^d   Sanguinetti, Maurizio ^a   Posteraro, Brunella ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^c UMR1319 MICALIS   (France)

^d CHU CÔTE DE NACRE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; FIBRONECTIN; FIBRONECTIN BINDING PROTEIN; PROTEIN EFBA; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EFBA GENE; ENTEROCOCCAL INFECTION; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN IMMOBILIZATION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; TROPISM; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL ADHESION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FIBRONECTINS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; PROTEIN BINDING; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84865775747     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jis440     Document Type: Article

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