Neither the Bvg- phase nor the vrg6 locus of Bordetella pertussis is required for respiratory infection in mice

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 2762-2768

  De Tejada, Guillermo Martinez ^a,d   Cotter, Peggy A ^a   Heininger, Ulrich ^a,e   Camilli, Andrew ^b   Akerley, Brian J ^c   Mekalanos, John J ^c   Miller, Jeff F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRA   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BORDETELLA PERTUSSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; INFECTION CONTROL; LUNG PARENCHYMA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; TRANSPOSON;

BORDETELLA PERTUSSIS;

EID: 0031865151     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.66.6.2762-2768.1998     Document Type: Article

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