Characterization of Aeromonas hydrophila strains of clinical, animal, and environmental origin expressing the O:34 antigen

Current Microbiology

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 104-108

  Khashe, Shideh ^a   Hill, Warren ^a   Michael Janda, J ^a  

^a Division of Communicable Disease Control   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; O ANTIGEN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY; PROTEINASE;

AEROMONAS HYDROPHILA; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY; ENVIRONMENT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT;

AEROMONAS HYDROPHILA; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; ENDOPEPTIDASES; ENVIRONMENT; HUMANS; LETHAL DOSE 50; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MICE; O ANTIGENS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0029846208     PISSN: 03438651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002849900083     Document Type: Article

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