[Ecovariant differences of Escherichia coli strains with respect to colicinogenicity and colicin resistance].
The analysis of 173 Escherichia coli strains, isolated from different sources, for colicinogenicity and colicin resistance revealed that frequency of these signs increased in the following order: water in open reservoirs, intestine, extraintestinal localizations. In most cases resistance to 5 or more bacterial colicins was due to the absence of the corresponding receptors to colicins. Colicin resistance and colicinogenicity render E. coli selective advantages under the conditions of intestinal microbiocenosis.
Gritsenko
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Research Institute of Cellular and Intracellular Symbiosis of the Urals Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, State Medical Academy, Orenburg, Russia.
Liashenko
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D002648:Child; D003087:Colicins / Q000096:biosynthesis / Q000494:pharmacology*; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000145:classification* / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism; D006801:Humans
D003087:Colicins