A Conserved Virulence Plasmidic Region Contributes to the Virulence of the Multiresistant Escherichia coli Meningitis Strain S286 Belonging to Phylogenetic Group C

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Lemaître, Chloé ^a,b   Mahjoub Messai, Farah ^a,b   Dupont, Damien ^a,b   Caro, Valérie ^c   Diancourt, Laure ^c   Bingen, Edouard ^a,b   Bidet, Philippe ^a,b   Bonacorsi, Stéphane ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^b HÔPITAL ROBERT DEBRÉ   (France)

^c INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORAMPHENICOL; NALIDIXIC ACID; RIFAMPICIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AVIAN PATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONSERVED VIRULENCE PLASMIDIC REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXTRAINTESTINAL PATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; MORTALITY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PLASMID; RAT; SEPSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BACTEREMIA; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MENINGITIS, ESCHERICHIA COLI; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PLASMIDS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RNA, MESSENGER; SEPSIS; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84884655137     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0074423     Document Type: Article

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