Evidence map›Paper›PMID 19946140›Full record

ReviewMicrobiology and molecular biology reviews : MMBR2009

Pathogenomics of the virulence plasmids of Escherichia coli.

Timothy J Johnson, Lisa K Nolan

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Review in Microbiology and molecular biology reviews : MMBR, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 243 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

243 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Timothy J JohnsonDepartment of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, University of Minnesota, 1971 Commonwealth Ave., 205 Veterinary Science, Saint Paul, MN 55108, USA. joh04207@umn.edu
Lisa K Nolan

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Bacterial plasmids are self-replicating, extrachromosomal elements that are key agents of change in microbial populations. They promote the dissemination of a variety of traits, including virulence, enhanced fitness, resistance to antimicrobial agents, and metabolism of rare substances. Escherichia coli, perhaps the most studied of microorganisms, has been found to possess a variety of plasmid types. Included among these are plasmids associated with virulence. Several types of E. coli virulence plasmids exist, including those essential for the virulence of enterotoxigenic E. coli, enteroinvasive E. coli, enteropathogenic E. coli, enterohemorrhagic E. coli, enteroaggregative E. coli, and extraintestinal pathogenic E. coli. Despite their diversity, these plasmids belong to a few plasmid backbones that present themselves in a conserved and syntenic manner. Thanks to some recent research, including sequence analysis of several representative plasmid genomes and molecular pathogenesis studies, the evolution of these virulence plasmids and the implications of their acquisition by E. coli are now better understood and appreciated. Here, work involving each of the E. coli virulence plasmid types is summarized, with the available plasmid genomic sequences for several E. coli pathotypes being compared in an effort to understand the evolution of these plasmid types and define their core and accessory components.

Indexed as

Escherichia coliAnimalsEscherichia coli InfectionsEvolution, MolecularGenome, BacterialGenomicsHumansPhylogenyPlasmidsRecombination, GeneticVirulence

Identifiers

PMID19946140
PMCPMC2786578

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