title: Colonization factors of human enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC).
abstract: Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) is the most common cause of childhood and travellers' diarrhoea. The ability of ETEC to adhere to the intestinal epithelium of the host is an important virulence determinant, and adhesion is mediated by proteinaceous surface appendages called colonization factors.
authors.affiliation: Dept of Bacteriology, Utrecht University, The Netherlands. w.gaastra@vetmic.dgk.ruu.nl
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Gaastra
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Svennerholm
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001422:Bacterial Adhesion; D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics; D001428:Bacterial Vaccines; D003967:Diarrhea / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000382:microbiology; D004768:Enterotoxins; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000235:genetics / Q000472:pathogenicity*; D004927:Escherichia coli Infections / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000517:prevention & control; D010861:Fimbriae, Bacterial / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics; D006801:Humans; D014552:Urinary Tract Infections / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000382:microbiology
chemical_list: D001426:Bacterial Proteins; D001428:Bacterial Vaccines; D004768:Enterotoxins