Article
The construction and characterization of colanic acid deficient mutants in an extraintestinal isolate of Escherichia coli (O4/K54/H5).
Microbial pathogenesis - 1 Apr 1995
Russo T A, Sharma G, Weiss J, Brown C
Abstract excerpt
Extraintestinal strains of Escherichia coli possess a variety of virulence factors that enable them to cause disease. These strains express a group 2 capsular polysaccharide which is important in the pathogenic process. Extraintestinal strains evaluated to date are also capable of producing the g...
Topics
- Animals
- Antigens, Bacterial
- Antigens, Surface
- Escherichia coli
- Humans
- Mice
- Mutation
- Polysaccharides
- Polysaccharides, Bacterial
- Rats
- Virulence
