Enterococcus faecalis antigens in human infections

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 65, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 4207-4215

  Xu, Yi ^a   Jiang, Lingxia ^c   Murray, Barbara E ^a,b   Weinstock, George M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; CELL SURFACE PROTEIN; DNA; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COSMID VECTOR; DNA SEQUENCE; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE LIBRARY; GENOME; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT;

EID: 0030862051     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.65.10.4207-4215.1997     Document Type: Article

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