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Véronique Houdouin1, Stéphane Bonacorsi, Naima Brahimi, Olivier Clermont, Xavier Nassif, Edouard Bingen.
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We report that the archetypal Escherichia coli strain C5 causing neonatal meningitis harbors a pathogenicity island (PAI) designated PAI I(C5) that is similar to the PAI II(J96) of uropathogenic E. coli J96 inserted in the leuX-tRNA gene. PAI-negative C5 mutants had a lower capacity than C5 to induce high-level bacteremia in a neonatal rat model. However, no change in their resistance to the bactericidal effect of serum and their capacity to cross the blood-brain barrier was observed.Entities:
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Year: 2002 PMID: 12228319 PMCID: PMC128312 DOI: 10.1128/IAI.70.10.5865-5869.2002
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Infect Immun ISSN: 0019-9567 Impact factor: 3.441