Heteropathogenic virulence and phylogeny reveal phased pathogenic metamorphosis in Escherichia coli O2: H6

EMBO Molecular Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 347-357

  Bielaszewska, Martina ^a   Schiller, Roswitha ^a,b   Lammers, Lydia ^a   Bauwens, Andreas ^a   Fruth, Angelika ^c   Middendorf, Barbara ^a   Schmidt, M Alexander ^a   Tarr, Phillip I ^d   Dobrindt, Ulrich ^a,b   Karch, Helge ^a   Mellmann, Alexander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^c ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^d WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Heteropathogenicity; Phased metamorphosis; Phylogeny; Shiga toxin producing Escherichia coli; Uropathogenic Escherichia coli

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; METAMORPHOSIS; MOUSE; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHIGA TOXIN PRODUCING ESCHERICHIA COLI; UROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ANIMALS; CELL SURVIVAL; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; CHO CELLS; CRICETINAE; CRICETULUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SHIGA TOXIN; VERO CELLS; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84895742755     PISSN: 17574676     EISSN: 17574684     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/emmm.201303133     Document Type: Article

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