Learn how pathogenicity islands and bacteriophage ... Having considered some of the virulence factors encoded by E. coli, take another look at Figure 1. The second-largest circle illustrates ...

Genes encoding virulence factors in these bacteria are frequently carried on mobile genetic elements, such as bacteriophages and pathogenicity islands (SaPIs ... in collaborative research projects ...

Elimination of this gene did not reduce the bacteria's virulence, however. "Using the pathogenicity gene discovered in this study as an indicator, we plan to create a detection system for ...

The type III secretion system was found to be directly involved in cell invasiveness and enterotoxicity, making it a major virulence factor for P. rustigianii. "Using the pathogenicity gene ...

Elimination of this gene did not reduce the bacteria’s virulence, however. “Using the pathogenicity gene discovered in this study as an indicator, we plan to create a detection system for ...

In this article we examine the range of factors thought to influence the ... have also been implicated in disease pathogenesis. These microvascular events have profound repercussions on brain ...

Streptococci express a myriad of colonisation and virulence attributes that promote their survival at a variety of ecological sites. Many of these factors are surface-expressed adhesins that ... these ...

First, a confession: I wasn’t even alive when Queen played Live Aid. I was born three years later in 1988, three years before Mercury died of bronchial pneumonia resulting from AIDS. My first ...

A: Animal; ACE: Accessory cholera enterotoxin; H: Human; ZOT: Zonula occludens toxin.

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