Construction of a flagellum-negative mutant of Proteus mirabilis: Effect on internalization by human renal epithelial cells and virulence in a mouse model of ascending urinary tract infection

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 64, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 5332-5340

  Mobley, Harry L T ^a   Belas, Robert ^a   Lockatell, Virginia ^a   Chippendale, Gwynn ^a   Trifillis, Anna L ^b   Johnson, David E ^a   Warren, John W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLAGELLIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FLAGELLUM; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTERNALIZATION; KIDNEY TUBULE CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEUS MIRABILIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

EID: 0029844203     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.64.12.5332-5340.1996     Document Type: Article

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