Characterization of flaA- and flaB- mutants of Serpulina hyodysenteriae: Both flagellin subunits, flaA and flaB, are necessary for full motility and intestinal colonization

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 153, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 119-128

  Kennedy, Michael J ^a   Rosey, Everett L ^a   Yancey Jr , Robert J ^a  

^a PFIZER INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Flagellin mutant; Intestinal colonization; Motility; Serpulina hyodysenteriae

Indexed keywords

FLAGELLIN; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BRACHYSPIRA; CECUM; CELL MOTILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FLAGELLUM; GENE DISRUPTION; INTESTINE INFECTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; CECUM; FEMALE; FLAGELLA; FLAGELLIN; GENES, BACTERIAL; MICE; MUTATION; SERPULINA HYODYSENTERIAE; SPECIFIC PATHOGEN-FREE ORGANISMS; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BRACHYSPIRA; BRACHYSPIRA HYODYSENTERIAE; SPIROCHAETALES;

EID: 0030873720     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(97)00244-9     Document Type: Article

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