Characterization of a Strain of Chlamydia pneumoniae Isolated from a Coronary Atheroma by Analysis of the omp1 Gene and Biological Activity in Human Endothelial Cells

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1370-1376

  Molestina, Robert E ^a   Dean, Deborah ^b   Miller, Richard D ^a   Ramirez, Julio A ^a   Summersgill, James T ^a  

^a University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERCELLULAR ADHESION MOLECULE 1; INTERLEUKIN 8; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN 1; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL LINE; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; SECRETION; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; CHEMOKINE CCL2; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; INTERCELLULAR ADHESION MOLECULE-1; INTERLEUKIN-8; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA;

EID: 0032038662     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.66.4.1370-1376.1998     Document Type: Article

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