Recent advances in understanding enteric pathogenic Escherichia coli

MA Croxen, RJ Law, R Scholz… - Clinical microbiology …, 2013 - journals.asm.org
Although Escherichia coli can be an innocuous resident of the gastrointestinal tract, it also
has the pathogenic capacity to cause significant diarrheal and extraintestinal diseases …

Pathogenicity Factors of Genomic Islands in Intestinal and Extraintestinal Escherichia coli

M Desvaux, G Dalmasso, R Beyrouthy… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Escherichia coli is a versatile bacterial species that includes both harmless commensal
strains and pathogenic strains found in the gastrointestinal tract in humans and warm …

In Silico Genoty** of Escherichia coli Isolates for Extraintestinal Virulence Genes by Use of Whole-Genome Sequencing Data

AM Malberg Tetzschner, JR Johnson… - Journal of clinical …, 2020 - journals.asm.org
ABSTRACT Extraintestinal pathogenic Escherichia coli (ExPEC) is the leading cause in
humans of urinary tract infection and bacteremia. The previously published web tool …

Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli in veterinary medicine

B Nagy, PZ Fekete - International journal of medical microbiology, 2005 - Elsevier
Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) infection is the most common type of colibacillosis
of young animals (primarily pigs and calves), and it is a significant cause of diarrhoea …

The unifying hypothesis of Alzheimer's disease: Heparan sulfate proteoglycans/glycosaminoglycans are key as first hypothesized over 30 years ago

AD Snow, JA Cummings, T Lake - Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The updated “Unifying Hypothesis of Alzheimer's disease”(AD) is described that links all the
observed neuropathology in AD brain (ie, plaques, tangles, and cerebrovascular amyloid …

[HTML][HTML] Molecular mechanisms of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli infection

JM Fleckenstein, PR Hardwidge, GP Munson… - Microbes and …, 2010 - Elsevier
Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) are a major cause of diarrheal illness in develo**
countries, and perennially the most common cause of traveller's diarrhea. ETEC constitute a …

Glycosaminoglycans in infectious disease

E Kamhi, EJ Joo, JS Dordick, RJ Linhardt - Biological Reviews, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) are complex carbohydrates that are ubiquitously present on
the cell surface and in the extracellular matrix. Interactions between GAGs and pathogens …

Weapons of mass destruction: virulence factors of the global killer Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli

SM Turner, A Scott-Tucker, LM Cooper… - FEMS microbiology …, 2006 - academic.oup.com
Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) is the most common cause of food and water-borne
E. coli-mediated human diarrhoea worldwide. The incidence in develo** countries is …

Colonization factors of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli

TPV Madhavan, H Sakellaris - Advances in applied microbiology, 2015 - Elsevier
Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) is a major cause of life-threatening diarrheal
disease around the world. The major aspects of ETEC virulence are colonization of the small …

Targeting of mammalian glycans enhances phage predation in the gastrointestinal tract

SI Green, C Gu Liu, X Yu, S Gibson, W Salmen… - MBio, 2021 - journals.asm.org
The human gastrointestinal mucosal surface consists of a eukaryotic epithelium, a
prokaryotic microbiota, and a carbohydrate-rich interface that separates them. In the …