Role of the Staphylococcal accessory gene regulator (sar) in septic arthritis

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 64, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 4438-4443

  Nilsson, Ing Marie ^a,d   Bremell, Tomas ^a   Rydén, Cecilia ^b   Cheung, Ambrose L ^c   Tarkowski, Andrzej ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Department of Clinical Immunology ^*  (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ARTHRITIS; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; FEMALE; GENE CONTROL; GENE INDUCTION; GENE LOCUS; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 0029909324     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.64.11.4438-4443.1996     Document Type: Article

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