Phenotypic and genotypic characteristics associated with biofilm formation in clinical isolates of atypical enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (aEPEC) strains

BMC Microbiology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Nascimento, Heloisa H ^a   Silva, Lucas Ep ^a   Souza, Renata T ^a   Silva, Neusa P ^a   Scaletsky, Isabel Ca ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Biofilm formation; Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli; Type 1 pili

Indexed keywords

ADHESIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; GUANYLATE CYCLASE; PROTON TRANSPORTING ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE SYNTHASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BETA CHAIN; BIOFILM; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; FIMBRIA; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; SEROTYPE; TEMPERATURE; TRANSPOSON; DIARRHEA; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

BIOFILMS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENTEROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; INFANT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOSPHORUS-OXYGEN LYASES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEROTYPING; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84903869211     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2180-14-184     Document Type: Article

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