The transferrin receptor expressed by gonococcal strain FA1090 is required for the experimental infection of human male volunteers

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 611-616

  Cornelissen, Cynthia Nau ^a,b   Kelley, Meera ^a   Hobbs, Marcia M ^a   Anderson, James E ^a   Cannon, Janne G ^a   Cohen, Myron S ^a   Sparling, P Frederick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSFERRIN RECEPTOR; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IRON METABOLISM; MALE; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES; URETHRITIS; VOLUNTEER;

GENES, BACTERIAL; GONORRHEA; HUMANS; IRON; MALE; MUTAGENESIS; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; RECEPTORS, TRANSFERRIN; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC; URETHRITIS; VIRULENCE;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0031974549     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.00710.x     Document Type: Article

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