Use of green fluorescent protein to assess urease gene expression by uropathogenic Proteus mirabilis during experimental ascending urinary tract infection

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 330-335

  Zhao, Hui ^a   Thompson, Richard B ^a   Lockatell, Virginia ^b   Johnson, David E ^c   Mobley, Harry L T ^c  

^a Department of Microbiology and Immunology ^*  (United States)

^b Division of Hereditary Disease   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; UREASE;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLADDER; EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INDUCTION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEUS MIRABILIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; PROTEUS MIRABILIS;

EID: 0031964858     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.66.1.330-335.1998     Document Type: Article

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