Loss of resistance to ingestion and phagocytic killing by O(-) and K(-) mutants of a uropathogenic Escherichia coli O75:K5 strain.

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To determine the importance of the O75 O antigen and the K5 capsular antigen in resistance to phagocytosis and phagocytic killing, we used previously described O75(-) and K5(-) mutants from an O75(+) K5(+) wild-type uropathogenic Escherichia coli strain in phagocytosis assays with polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMNs) and monocytes. At a 10-to-1 ratio of bacteria to phagocytes and in the presence of 10% serum, the...

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