Laboratory adapted Escherichia coli K-12 becomes a pathogen of Caenorhabditis elegans upon restoration of O antigen biosynthesis

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 87, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 939-950

  Browning, Douglas F ^a   Wells, Timothy J ^a   França, Fernanda L S ^a   Morris, Faye C ^a   Sevastsyanovich, Yanina R ^a   Bryant, Jack A ^a   Johnson, Matthew D ^a   Lund, Peter A ^a   Cunningham, Adam F ^a   Hobman, Jon L ^b   May, Robin C ^a   Webber, Mark A ^a   Henderson, Ian R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

O ANTIGEN;

ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BIOFILM; BIOSYNTHESIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; COMMENSAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI K 12; GENE LOCUS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; INTESTINE MUCOSA; LABORATORY TEST; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WBBL GENE;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; ESCHERICHIA COLI K12; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; O ANTIGENS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI K12;

EID: 84874216436     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mmi.12144     Document Type: Article

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