Autotransporter protein-encoding genes of diarrheagenic Escherichia coli are found in both typical and atypical enteropathogenic E. coli strains

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 411-414

  Abreu, Afonso G ^a   Bueris, Vanessa ^a   Porangaba, Tatiane M ^a   Sircili, Marcelo P ^a   Navarro Garcia, Fernando ^b   Elias, Waldir P ^a  

^a INSTITUTO BUTANTAN   (Brazil)

^b DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

E. COLI; PROTEIN-ENCODING GENES;

ENCODING (SYMBOLS); GENES; PROTEINS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

CARRIER PROTEIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

BIOMARKER; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; DIARRHEAL DISEASE; PATHOTYPE; PROTEIN; VIRULENCE;

ARTICLE; ENTEROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY;

ENTEROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84871886228     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02635-12     Document Type: Article

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