The bacterial amyloid curli is associated with urinary source bloodstream infection

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Hung, Chia ^a   Marschall, Jonas ^a,b   Burnham, Carey Ann D ^a   Byun, Albert S ^a   Henderson, Jeffrey P ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID; CURLI; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CRL PROTEIN, BACTERIA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLOOD; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLONAL VARIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINE; WESTERN BLOTTING; BACTEREMIA; COMPLICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; TEMPERATURE;

AMYLOID; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; TEMPERATURE; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 84919467159     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0086009     Document Type: Article

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