Article
Characterization of adhesin variants in Indian isolates of enteroaggregative Escherichia coli.
FEMS microbiology letters - 1 May 2006
Bhardwaj Renu, Majumdar Siddhartha, Ganguly Nirmal K, Taneja Neelam, Dutta Shanta, Ramamurthy Thanadavarayan, Chakraborti Anuradha
Abstract excerpt
Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli (EAEC) are causative agents of diarrhea, being characterized by aggregative adherence to cultured epithelial cells. In this study, phenotypic properties of EAEC were analyzed with respect to AA, hemagglutination, clump and biofilm formation, all of which are mediated by aggregative adherence fimbriae (AAF). The strains were also screened for AAF types, AAF adhesin variants and...
Topics
- Adhesins, Escherichia coli
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Bacterial Adhesion
- Biofilms
- Child, Preschool
- Escherichia coli
- Escherichia coli Proteins
- Fimbriae Proteins
- Fimbriae, Bacterial
- Genotype
- Hemagglutination
- Humans
- India
- Molecular Sequence Data