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Adherence pili of avian strains of Escherichia coli O78
Z Yerushalmi1, N I Smorodinsky, M W Naveh
1Department of Microbiology, Tel-Aviv University, Teva, Atarot, Israel.
Infection and Immunity
|April 1, 1990
Abstract:
Avian colisepticemia starts with the invasion of the trachea by virulent strains of Escherichia coli, with strains of serotype O78 responsible for about 50% of the cases. Several O78 strains isolated from poultry with colisepticemia produced pili with a subunit of molecular weight of 18,000 that mediated adherence to avian epithelial tissues in vitro and in vivo.