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SUBMITTER: Johnson JG
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3133326 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Johnson Jeremiah G JG Murphy Caitlin N CN Sippy Jean J Johnson Tylor J TJ Clegg Steven S
Journal of bacteriology 20110513 14
Klebsiella pneumoniae is an opportunistic pathogen which frequently causes hospital-acquired urinary and respiratory tract infections. K. pneumoniae may establish these infections in vivo following adherence, using the type 3 fimbriae, to indwelling devices coated with extracellular matrix components. Using a colony immunoblot screen, we identified transposon insertion mutants which were deficient for type 3 fimbrial surface production. One of these mutants possessed a transposon insertion withi ...[more]