Chapter 12 Adhesive pili of the chaperone-usher family Vasilios Kalas, Ender Volkan and Scott J. Hultgren, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA Introduction Bacterial surface appendages are…
Chapter 14 Type 3 secretion systems Liam J. Worrall, Julien R.C. Bergeron and Natalie C.J. Strynadka, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada Introduction In 1994, the group of Hans…
Chapter 10 Meningitis-associated Escherichia coli Kwang Sik Kim, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA Introduction Gram-negative bacillary meningitis continues to be an important cause of mortality and…
Chapter 6 Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli James M. Fleckenstein, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA Background Definition and/or classification The enterotoxigenic E. coli (ETEC) comprise a diverse pathotype…
Chapter 7 Shigella and enteroinvasive Escherichia coli Paradigms for pathogen evolution and host–parasite interactions Anthony T. Maurelli, Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, MD, USA Background Bacillary dysentery or shigellosis is caused…
Chapter 5 Enterohemorrhagic and other Shigatoxin-producing Escherichia coli Sivapriya Kailasan Vanaja1, Dakshina M. Jandhyala2, Emily M. Mallick3, John M. Leong1 and Sowmya Balasubramanian1, 1Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA,…
Chapter 1 The ecology of Escherichia coli David M. Gordon, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia The genus Escherichia The genus Esherichia and the species E. coli have been…
Chapter 9 Uropathogenic Escherichia coli Rachel R. Spurbeck and Harry L.T. Mobley, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, USA Background Classification and evolution of uropathogenic E. coli Uropathogenic…
Chapter 8 Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli Nadia Boisen1, Karen A. Krogfelt2 and James P. Nataro1, 1University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, USA, 2Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark Introduction Diarrhea…
Chapter 2 Comparative genomics of pathogenic Escherichia coli Jason W. Sahl1, Carolyn R. Morris2 and David A. Rasko2, 1Translational Genomics Research Institute, Flagstaff, AZ, USA, 2University of Maryland School of…
