Cooperation of Adhesin Alleles in <italic toggle="yes">Salmonella</italic>-Host Tropism

Cooperation of Adhesin Alleles in <italic toggle="yes">Salmonella</italic>-Host Tropism

ABSTRACT Allelic combinations and host specificities for three fimbrial adhesins, FimH, BcfD, and StfH, were compared for 262 strains of Salmonella enterica serovar Newport, a frequent human and livestock pathogen. Like FimH, BcfD had two major alleles (designated A and B), whereas StfH had two alle...

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Main Authors: Leon De Masi, Min Yue, Changmin Hu, Alexey V. Rakov, Shelley C. Rankin, Dieter M. Schifferli
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2017-04-01
Series:mSphere
Subjects:
Salmonella Newport
adhesins
allelic variation
fimbriae
host tropism
Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mSphere.00066-17

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https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mSphere.00066-17

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