Adherence pili of avian strains of Escherichia coli O78.
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.
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Department of Microbiology, Tel-Aviv University, Teva, Atarot, Israel.
Smorodinsky
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D000818:Animals; D001422:Bacterial Adhesion; D002645:Chickens / Q000382:microbiology*; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000472:pathogenicity*; D010861:Fimbriae, Bacterial / Q000502:physiology*; D014132:Trachea / Q000382:microbiology