Article
Phenotypic and genotypic assays for the detection and identification of adhesins from pyelonephritic Escherichia coli.
Annales de l'Institut Pasteur. Microbiology - 1 Jan 2000
Archambaud M, Courcoux P, Ouin V, Chabanon G, Labigne-Roussel A
Abstract excerpt
Four different gene clusters have been characterized so far which encode adhesins involved in the specific binding of pathogenic Escherichia coli to epithelial cells of the urinary tractus: the pap, sfa, afa and bma operons. The ability to adhere to uroepithelial cells and to interact with one or several of the specific receptors identified for each of the 4 adhesins, has been studied for 102 E. coli strains...
Topics
- Adhesins, Bacterial
- Bacterial Adhesion
- DNA Probes
- DNA Restriction Enzymes
- Epithelium
- Escherichia coli
- Escherichia coli Infections
- Genotype
- Hemagglutination Tests
- Humans
- Nucleic Acid Hybridization