E. coli as an all-rounder: The thin line between commensalism and pathogenicity

Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology

Volumn 358, Issue , 2013, Pages 3-32

  Leimbach, Andreas ^a,b   Hacker, Jörg ^c   Dobrindt, Ulrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROBIOTIC AGENT;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; COMMENSALISM; COMPETITIVE ABILITY; DNA CONTENT; DNA MODIFICATION; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION; FITNESS; GENE LOSS; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PHENOTYPE; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PHYLOGENY; POINT MUTATION; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYELONEPHRITIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; UROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; GENETICS; GENOMICS; INTESTINE; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; GENOMICS; HUMANS; INTESTINES; PHYLOGENY; SYMBIOSIS;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84880167759     PISSN: 0070217X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/82_2012_303     Document Type: Article

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