Pore‐forming and haemolytic properties of the Gardnerella vaginalis cytoiysin

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 1993, Pages 1143-1155

  Cauci, Sabina ^a   Monte, Rossella ^a   Ropele, Monica ^b   ero, Caterina ^a   Not, Tarcisio ^c   Quadrifoglio, Franco ^a   Menestrina, Gianfranco ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c INSTITUTE FOR MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH IRCCS BURLO GAROFOLO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GARDNERELLA VAGINALIS; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA;

CYTOLYSIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; FEMALE; GARDNERELLA VAGINALIS; HEMOLYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; VAGINA DISCHARGE; VAGINOSIS;

CHOLESTEROL; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GEL; CHROMATOGRAPHY, ION EXCHANGE; CYTOTOXINS; ERYTHROCYTES; FEMALE; GARDNERELLA VAGINALIS; HEMOLYSINS; HEMOLYSIS; HUMAN; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; ISOELECTRIC FOCUSING; KINETICS; LIPOSOMES; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0027482678     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.1993.tb01244.x     Document Type: Article

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