The HtrA stress response protease contributes to resistance of Brucella abortus to killing by murine phagocytes

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 64, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 4838-4841

  Elzer, Philip H ^a,b   Phillips, Robert W ^a   Robertson, Gregory T ^a   Roop II, R Martin ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY AGRICULTURAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; PROTEINASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BRUCELLA ABORTUS; BRUCELLOSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; ZOONOSIS;

EID: 0029908161     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.64.11.4838-4841.1996     Document Type: Article

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