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Environmental phosphate differentially affects virulence phenotypes of uropathogenic Escherichia coli isolates

M Grillo-Puertas1, M G Martínez-Zamora1, M R Rintoul1

  • 1a Instituto Superior de Investigaciones Biológicas , INSIBIO (CONICET-UNT) and Instituto de Química Biológica "Dr Bernabé Bloj", Facultad de Bioquímica, Química y Farmacia (UNT) ; Tucumán , Argentina.

Virulence
|June 18, 2015
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Keywords:
UPECbiofilmphosphatepolyphosphatevirulence

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