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Septicemia-inducing Escherichia coli O115:K"V165"F165(1) resists killing by porcine polymorphonuclear leukocytes in vitro: role of F165(1) fimbriae and K"V165" O-antigen capsule.
Infection and immunity - 1 Feb 1994
Ngeleka M, Martineau-Doizé B, Fairbrother J M
Abstract excerpt
Escherichia coli O115:K"V165":F165(1) wild-type strain 5131 survives in the bloodstream of experimentally inoculated gnotobiotic pigs and induces septicemia, whereas its afimbriate (F165(1)-negative) TnphoA mutant M48 and its acapsular (K"V165"-negative) spontaneous mutant 5131a are both nonpatho...
Topics
- Animals
- Blood Bactericidal Activity
- Escherichia coli
- Escherichia coli Infections
- Fimbriae, Bacterial
- In Vitro Techniques
- Microscopy, Electron
- Mutation
- Neutrophils
- O Antigens
- Phagocytosis
- Phagosomes
- Polysaccharides, Bacterial
- Respiratory Burst
- Sepsis
- Swine