Relationship between pathogenicity of Coxiella burnetii isolates and gene sequences of the macrophage infectivity potentiator (Cbmip and sensor-like protein (qrsA)

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 154, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 201-205

  Masuzawa, Toshiyuki ^a   Sawaki, Katsuji ^a   Nagaoka, Hiromi ^b   Akiyama, Masato ^b   Hirai, Katsuya ^c   Yanagihara, Yasutake ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHIZUOKA   (Japan)

^b Shizuoka Prefectural Institute of Public Health and Environmental Science   (Japan)

^c GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Coxiella burnetti; Macrophage infectivity potentiator; Q fever; Sensor like protein

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COXIELLA BURNETII; GENE SEQUENCE; GUINEA PIG; MACROPHAGE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; Q FEVER;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; COXIELLA BURNETII; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; IMMUNOPHILINS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDYLPROLYL ISOMERASE;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAVIA; CAVIA PORCELLUS; COXIELLA BURNETII; COXIELLA BURNETTI; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 0030774465     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(97)00325-X     Document Type: Article

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