Relationship between phase variation in colony morphology, intrastrain variation in cell wall physiology, and nasopharyngeal colonization by Streptococcus pneumoniae

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 64, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 2240-2245

  Weiser, Jeffrey N ^a,b   Markiewicz, Zdislaw ^c   Tuomanen, Elaine I ^c   Wani, Javaid H ^a  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIDASE; PEPTIDOGLYCAN;

ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUTOLYSIS; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM MUTANT; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; IMMUNOBLOTTING; NASOPHARYNX; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 0029934982     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.64.6.2240-2245.1996     Document Type: Article

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