Phenotypic effect of isogenic uspA1 and uspA2 mutations on Moraxella catarrhalis 035e

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 66, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 3113-3119

  Aebi, Christoph ^a,b,d   Lafontaine, Eric R ^a   Cope, Leslie D ^a   Latimer, Jo L ^a   Lumbley, Sheryl L ^a   Mccracken Jr , George H ^b   Hansen, Eric J ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE MUTATION; HEP 2 CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MORAXELLA CATARRHALIS; NONHUMAN; OTITIS MEDIA; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

MORAXELLA CATARRHALIS;

EID: 0031815045     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.66.7.3113-3119.1998     Document Type: Article

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