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Signature-Tagged Mutagenesis in a Chicken Infection Model Leads to the Identification of a Novel Avian Pathogenic Escherichia coli Fimbrial Adhesin

The extraintestinal pathogen, avian pathogenic E. coli (APEC), known to cause systemic infections in chickens, is responsible for large economic losses in the poultry industry worldwide. In order to identify genes involved in the early essential stages of pathogenesis, namely adhesion and colonizati...

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Autores principales: Antão, Esther-Maria, Ewers, Christa, Gürlebeck, Doreen, Preisinger, Rudolf, Homeier, Timo, Li, Ganwu, Wieler, Lothar H.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2771359/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19907658
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0007796