Variants of smooth Salmonella enterica serovar enteritidis that grow to higher cell density than the wild type are more virulent

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 2166-2172

  Guard Fetter, Jean ^a,b  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b SE Poultry Research Laboratory ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE;

AERATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BIOLUMINESCENCE; CHICKEN; CONTAMINATION; ENTERITIS; PLASMID; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTERITIDIS; GALLIFORMES; GALLUS GALLUS; NEGIBACTERIA; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SALMONELLA ENTERITIDIS;

EID: 0031777567     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.64.6.2166-2172.1998     Document Type: Article

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