Aberrant Community Architecture and Attenuated Persistence of Uropathogenic Escherichia coli in the Absence of Individual IHF Subunits

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Justice, Sheryl S ^a,b   Li, Birong ^a   Downey, Jennifer S ^c   Dabdoub, Shareef M ^a   Brockson, M Elizabeth ^a   Probst, G Duane ^a   Ray, William C ^a   Goodman, Steven D ^c  

^a THE RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT NATIONWIDE CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTEGRATION HOST FACTOR; INTEGRATION HOST FACTOR A; INTEGRATION HOST FACTOR B; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM PILUS; BINDING SITE; BLADDER; CYSTITIS; FEMALE; IHFA GENE; IHFB GENE; KIDNEY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPERON; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; UROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ANIMALS; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; DIMERIZATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTEGRATION HOST FACTORS; KIDNEY; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MODELS, GENETIC; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; URINARY BLADDER; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS; UROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; MURINAE;

EID: 84868105828     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0048349     Document Type: Article

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