Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae does not require urease activity to produce acute swine pleuropneumonia

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 148, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 53-57

  Tascón Cabrero, Rubén Iván ^a   Vázquez Boland, José A ^b   Gutiérrez, César B ^a   Rodríguez Barbosa, J Ignacio ^a   Rodríguez Ferri, Elías Fernando ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEÓN   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae; swine pleuropneumonia; transposon mutagenesis; urease; virulence

Indexed keywords

UREASE;

ACTINOBACILLUS PLEUROPNEUMONIAE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWINE; TRANSPOSON;

ACTINOBACILLUS PLEUROPNEUMONIAE; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MUTAGENESIS; PLEUROPNEUMONIA; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES; UREASE; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0031105366     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(97)00012-8     Document Type: Article

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