Uropathogenic strains of Escherichia coli are characterized by the expression of distinctive
bacterial properties, products, or structures referred to as virulence factors because they …

Fimbriae are long, thread like protein polymers found on the surface of many strains of
Escherichia coli. The presence of fimbriae has been found to be significantly correlated with …

Inhibition of bacterial adherence to bladder cells has been assumed to account for the
beneficial action ascribed to cranberry juice and cranberry juice cocktail in the prevention of …

A large number of linear and branched oligosaccharides and several glycosides of d-
mannose were tested for their inhibitory activity on the agglutination of yeast cells or guinea …

Most gram-negative pathogens express fibrous adhesive virulence organelles that mediate
targeting to the sites of infection. The F1 capsular antigen from the plague pathogen Yersinia …

Acinetobacter calcoaceticus RAG-1, a hydrocarbon-degrading bacterium which adheres
avidly to hydrocarbons and other hydrophobic surfaces, possesses numerous thin fimbriae …

A variety of genera and species of the family Enterobacteriaceae bear surface fimbriae that
enable them to bind to D-mannose residues on eukaryotic cells1–3. Until recently, it was …

Over the last decade the adhesive characteristics of bacteria and other cells have attracted a
grcal deal of attention and have assumed increasing significance in microbial ecology. Not …

The genes responsible for the expression of type 1 fimbriae, produced by the majority of E.
coli strains, have been cloned from an E. coli K12 strain. The “passenger” DNA from an …

Surface platforms were engineered from poly (l-lysine)-graft-poly (2-methyl-2-
oxazoline)(PLL-g-PMOXA) copolymers to study the mechanisms involved in the non-specific …