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Descriptor English:
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Fimbriae, Bacterial
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Descriptor Spanish:
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Fimbrias Bacterianas
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Descriptor Portuguese:
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Fímbrias Bacterianas
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Synonyms English:
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Bacterial Fimbriae
Bacterial Pili
Common Fimbriae
Common Pili
Pili, Bacterial
Pili, Common
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Tree Number:
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A11.284.180.285
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Definition English:
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Thin, hairlike appendages, 1 to 20 microns in length and often occurring in large numbers, present on the cells of gram-negative bacteria, particularly Enterobacteriaceae and Neisseria. Unlike flagella, they do not possess motility, but being protein (pilin) in nature, they possess antigenic and hemagglutinating properties. They are of medical importance because some fimbriae mediate the attachment of bacteria to cells via adhesins (ADHESINS, BACTERIAL). Bacterial fimbriae refer to common pili, to be distinguished from the preferred use of "pili", which is confined to sex pili (PILI, SEX). |
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Indexing Annotation English:
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appendages of gram-neg bact; coord IM with specific bacterium (IM or NIM) if pertinent; A 11 qualif except /cytol; /genet permitted; DF: FIMBRIAE BACT
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See Related English:
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Adhesins, Bacterial
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History Note English:
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95; was PILI, BACTERIAL 1980-94; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL was see PILI, BACTERIAL 1980-94
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Allowable Qualifiers English:
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Record Number:
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31968
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Unique Identifier:
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D010861
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DeCS SciELO LILACS LIS
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