Contribution of the highly conserved EaeH surface protein to enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli pathogenesis

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 82, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 3657-3666

  Sheikh, Alaullah ^a   Luo, Qingwei ^a   Roy, Koushik ^c   Shabaan, Salwa ^d   Kumar, Pardeep ^a   Qadri, Firdausi ^e   Fleckenstein, James M ^a,b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d Beni Suef University   (Egypt)

^e INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; INTIMIN; INVASIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; PROTEIN EAEH; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; CACO 2 CELL LINE; ENTEROTOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HOST CELL; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; INTESTINE EPITHELIUM CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SMALL INTESTINE; WILD TYPE;

ADHESINS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL ADHESION; CACO-2 CELLS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; ENTEROTOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ENTEROTOXINS; EPITHELIAL CELLS; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI VACCINES; HUMANS; INTESTINES;

EID: 84906071026     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.01890-14     Document Type: Article

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