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  • Terri's team exposed two varieties of E. Coli bacteria, one having hair like projections called fimbriae and the other without, to cranberry juice.

    Cranberry Juice Prevents Urinary Tract Infections 2008

  • Under a microscope, E.coli looks like someone who has forgotten to see the hairdresser for years - it is completely covered with hairy structures, called fimbriae.

    WalesOnline - Home 2011

  • This strain of E. coli is covered with small hair-like projections known as fimbriae which act like hooks and latch onto cells that line the urinary tract.

    Infection Control Today Site Wide Content Feed 2010

  • E. coli is covered with small hair-like projections known as fimbriae which act like hooks and latch onto cells that line the urinary tract.

    WPI News 2010

  • Matrix components, such as fimbriae and cellulose, have been suggested to play an important role in the survival of Salmonella in the environment.

    BioMed Central - Latest articles 2009

  • Matrix components, such as fimbriae and cellulose, have been suggested to play an important role in the survival of Salmonella in the environment.

    BioMed Central - Latest articles 2009

  • (This latter metaphoric -- we've no fimbriae to spare!);

    Songs and Other Verse Eugene Field 1872

  • Our results indicate that, for example, gene apxIVA from an operon coding for RTX toxin ApxIV is highly up-regulated in vivo, and that two genes from the operon coding for type IV fimbriae (APL_0878 and APL_0879) were also up-regulated.

    BioMed Central - Latest articles 2010

  • Our results indicate that, for example, gene apxIVA from an operon coding for RTX toxin ApxIV is highly up-regulated in vivo, and that two genes from the operon coding for type IV fimbriae (APL_0878 and APL_0879) were also up-regulated.

    BioMed Central - Latest articles 2010

  • This means that appears that cranberry causes changes in cranberry products might be a good, non - bacterial fimbriae.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows NutraceuticalMedicalResearch@slideshare.net(Nutrac 2010

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