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Bacterial Fimbria
Known as:
fimbrium
, Common Fimbriae
, Common Pili
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Thin, hairlike appendages, 1 to 20 microns in length and often occurring in large numbers, present on the cells of gram-negative bacteria…
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Adhesins, Bacterial
Bacteria
Bacterial Pilus
Fimbriae Proteins
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Cellular Structures
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Sex Pili
pilus part
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Review
2009
Review
2009
Resistance Plasmid Families in Enterobacteriaceae
A. Carattoli
Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
2009
Corpus ID: 28556843
Bacteria carry extrachromosomal, self-replicating genetic elements called plasmids. A plasmid is defined as a double-stranded…
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Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
Electrically conductive bacterial nanowires produced by Shewanella oneidensis strain MR-1 and other microorganisms.
Y. Gorby
,
S. Yanina
,
+21 authors
J. Fredrickson
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences…
2006
Corpus ID: 38322
Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 produced electrically conductive pilus-like appendages called bacterial nanowires in direct response…
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Highly Cited
2005
Highly Cited
2005
Extracellular electron transfer via microbial nanowires
G. Reguera
,
K. McCarthy
,
Teena Mehta
,
Julie S. Nicoll
,
M. Tuominen
,
D. Lovley
Nature
2005
Corpus ID: 4425287
Microbes that can transfer electrons to extracellular electron acceptors, such as Fe(iii) oxides, are important in organic matter…
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Review
2002
Review
2002
Type IV pili and twitching motility.
J. Mattick
Annual Review of Microbiology
2002
Corpus ID: 13415744
Twitching motility is a flagella-independent form of bacterial translocation over moist surfaces. It occurs by the extension…
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Highly Cited
2000
Highly Cited
2000
Extended virulence genotypes of Escherichia coli strains from patients with urosepsis in relation to phylogeny and host compromise.
J. R. Johnson
,
A. Stell
Journal of Infectious Diseases
2000
Corpus ID: 15089920
Among 75 urosepsis isolates of Escherichia coli, 29 virulence factor (VF) genes were detected by use of a novel polymerase chain…
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Highly Cited
1998
Highly Cited
1998
Flagellar and twitching motility are necessary for Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilm development
G. O’Toole
,
R. Kolter
Molecular Microbiology
1998
Corpus ID: 25140899
The formation of complex bacterial communities known as biofilms begins with the interaction of planktonic cells with a surface…
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Highly Cited
1998
Highly Cited
1998
Genetic analysis of Escherichia coli biofilm formation: roles of flagella, motility, chemotaxis and type I pili
L. Pratt
,
R. Kolter
Molecular Microbiology
1998
Corpus ID: 26631504
We have used Escherichia coli as a model system to investigate the initiation of biofilm formation. Here, we demonstrate that E…
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Review
1996
Review
1996
Acinetobacter spp. as nosocomial pathogens: microbiological, clinical, and epidemiological features
E. Bergogne-Bérézin
,
K. Towner
Clinical Microbiology Reviews
1996
Corpus ID: 210318
INTRODUCTION 149 TAXONOMY 149 Historical Features 149 Current Taxonomic Status 149 Delineation of Species 149 Species of Clinical…
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Review
1991
Review
1991
Virulence factors in Escherichia coli urinary tract infection
J. R. Johnson
Clinical Microbiology Reviews
1991
Corpus ID: 20352625
Uropathogenic strains of Escherichia coli are characterized by the expression of distinctive bacterial properties, products, or…
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Highly Cited
1988
Highly Cited
1988
A novel suicide vector and its use in construction of insertion mutations: osmoregulation of outer membrane proteins and virulence determinants in Vibrio cholerae requires toxR
Veronica Miller
,
J. Mekalanos
Journal of Bacteriology
1988
Corpus ID: 25047442
The toxR gene of Vibrio cholerae encodes a transmembrane, DNA-binding protein that activates transcription of the cholera toxin…
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