Isolation and characterization of hemolytic genes from Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 143, Issue 2-3, 1996, Pages 217-221

  Kato, Tetsuo ^a   Kimizuka, Ryuta ^a   Okuda, Katsuji ^a  

^a TOKYO DENTAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans; Hemolytic activity; Periodontitis

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; CALCIUM ION; CHOLESTEROL; DITHIOTHREITOL; EDETIC ACID; HEMOLYSIN; LEUKOTOXIN; MAGNESIUM ION; MANGANESE; MERCAPTOETHANOL; PROTEINASE; RABBIT ANTISERUM; VIRULENCE FACTOR; ZINC;

ACTINOBACILLUS ACTINOMYCETEMCOMITANS; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; DNA LIBRARY; ERYTHROCYTE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE ISOLATION; HEAT; HEMOLYSIS; HORSE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PERIODONTITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; SHEEP;

ACTINOBACILLUS ACTINOMYCETEMCOMITANS; ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EQUUS CABALLUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 0030271443     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-1097(96)00315-1     Document Type: Article

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