Identification of virulence-associated characteristics in clinical isolates of Yersinia enterocolitica lacking classical virulence markers

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 1113-1120

  Grant, Travis ^b   Bennett Wood, Vicki ^b   Robins Browne, Roy M ^a  

^a ROYAL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENTEROTOXIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CELL INVASION; CHO CELL; DIARRHEA; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; HEP 2 CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTESTINE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA;

EID: 0031951821     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.66.3.1113-1120.1998     Document Type: Article

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