Adhesins, Escherichia coli

"Adhesins, Escherichia coli" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

expand / collapse MeSH information
Thin, filamentous protein structures, including proteinaceous capsular antigens (fimbrial antigens), that mediate adhesion of E. coli to surfaces and play a role in pathogenesis. They have a high affinity for various epithelial cells.


expand / collapse publications
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Adhesins, Escherichia coli" by people in this website by year, and whether "Adhesins, Escherichia coli" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 9 publications over 7 distinct years, with a maximum of 3 publications in 2000
To see the data from this visualization as text, click here.