The impact of oregano (Origanum heracleoticum) essential oil and carvacrol on virulence gene transcription by Escherichia coli O157: H7

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 362, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Mith, Hasika ^a,b   Clinquart, Antoine ^a   Zhiri, Abdesselam ^c   Daube, Georges ^a   Delcenserie, Véronique ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b Cambodia   (Cambodia)

^c Galderma R and D   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Carvacrol; EHEC O157:H7; Oregano essential oil; Virulence gene expression

Indexed keywords

CARVACROL; ESSENTIAL OIL; SHIGA TOXIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; TERPENE; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; DRUG EFFICACY; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; FLIC GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; LUXS GENE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; OREGANO; ORIGANUM HERACLEOTICUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; QUORUM SENSING; UPREGULATION; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECTS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; ORIGANUM; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION; MONOTERPENES; OILS, VOLATILE; ORIGANUM; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 84947546813     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/femsle/fnu021     Document Type: Article

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