Non-motile mini-transposon mutants of Bordetella bronchiseptica exhibit altered abilities to invade and survive in eukaryotic cells

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 146, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 263-269

  West, Nicholas P ^a   Fitter, John T ^a   Jakubzik, Ute ^b   Rohde, Manfred ^b   Guzmán, Carlos A ^b   Walker, Mark J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR INFECTION RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bordetella bronchiseptica; flagella; intracellular survival; motility

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BORDETELLA BRONCHISEPTICA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLAGELLUM; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRANSPOSON;

BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BORDETELLA BRONCHISEPTICA; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; FLAGELLA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MUTAGENESIS; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0031017919     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(96)00486-7     Document Type: Article

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