Phosphatidylcholine-specific phospholipase C from Listeria monocytogenes is an important virulence factor in murine cerebral listeriosis

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 66, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 5930-5938

  Schlüter, Dirk ^a   Domann, Eugen ^b   Buck, Christine ^c   Hain, Torsten ^b   Hof, Herbert ^a   Chakraborty, Trinad ^b   Deckert Schlüter, Martina ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; PHOSPHOLIPASE C; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELETION MUTANT; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HYDROCEPHALUS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIOSIS; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL;

LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES;

EID: 0031741076     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.66.12.5930-5938.1998     Document Type: Article

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