Bacterial cytolysin perturbs round window membrane permeability barrier in vivo: Possible cause of sensorineural hearing loss in acute otitis media

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 343-346

  Engel, Frank ^a   Blatz, Rosemarie ^b   Schliebs, Reinhard ^c   Palmer, Michael ^d   Bhakdi, Sucharit ^b  

^a Medical Experimental Center   (Germany)

^b Inst of Med Microbiol and Hygiene   (Germany)

^c Paul Flechsig Institute of Brain Research   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; CYTOLYSIN; SERUM ALBUMIN I 131; STREPTOLYSIN O;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COCHLEA FENESTRA; COCHLEA INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GUINEA PIG; ISOTOPE LABELING; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; NONHUMAN; OTITIS MEDIA; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PERMEABILITY BARRIER; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0031975893     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.66.1.343-346.1998     Document Type: Article

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