Virulence of strains of new types and type candidates of group B streptococci (Streptococcus agalactiae) - Comparative evaluation using mice and a chicken embryo model

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 418, Issue , 1997, Pages 819-821

  Wagner, Manfred ^a   Kaatz, Martin ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CELL KILLING; CHICKEN; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTYPE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; CHICK EMBRYO; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; MICE; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL; SEROTYPING; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0030867323     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4899-1825-3_194     Document Type: Article

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