Novel aggregative adherence fimbria variant of enteroaggregative Escherichia coli

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1396-1405

  Jønsson, Rie ^a,b   Struve, Carsten ^a   Boisen, Nadia ^a   Mateiu, Ramona Valentina ^c   Santiago, Araceli E ^d   Jenssen, Håvard ^b   Nataro, James P ^d   Krogfelt, Karen A ^a  

^a STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

^b ROSKILDE UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; PILIN; AGGR PROTEIN, E COLI; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN;

ADULT; AGG3A GENE; AGG5A GENE; AGG5DCBA GENE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL AGGREGATIVE ADHERENCE FIMBRIA; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; DENMARK; ENTEROAGGREGATIVE ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES; FIMBRIA; GENE CASSETTE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE DELETION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; HEP 2 CELL LINE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRAVELLER DIARRHEA; AGED; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; DIARRHEA; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; HEMAGGLUTINATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ADHESINS, ESCHERICHIA COLI; AGED; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL ADHESION; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIARRHEA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FEMALE; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; GENETIC VARIATION; HEMAGGLUTINATION; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

EID: 84925357282     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.02820-14     Document Type: Article

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