Bacterial fibers critical to human, avian infection

Date:

February 6, 2014

Source:

Arizona State University

Summary:

Researchers targeted a specific group of threadlike fibers known as E. coli common pilus, which adorn bacterial cell surfaces. In the first study of its kind, they analyzed the way these structures contribute to avian pathogenic E. coli's ability to cause infection and form dense cell aggregates known as biofilms.

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