Pathogenicity of an enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli hemolysin (hlyA) mutant in gnotobiotic piglets

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 66, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 5031-5035

  Moxley, Rodney A ^a   Berberov, Emil M ^a   Francis, David H ^b   Xing, Jun ^a,d   Moayeri, Mahtab ^c   Welch, Rodney A ^c   Baker, Diane R ^b   Barletta, Raúl G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL TOXIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI ENTEROTOXIN; HEMOLYSIN;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; DELETION MUTANT; DIARRHEA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; GASTROINTESTINAL INFECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPTICEMIA; STRUCTURAL GENE; SWINE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0031707482     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.66.10.5031-5035.1998     Document Type: Article

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