Klebsiella pneumoniae capsule expression is necessary for colonization of large intestines of streptomycin-treated mice

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 67, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 6152-6156

  Favre Bonté, Sabine ^a,b   Licht, Tine Rask ^a,c   Forestier, Christiane ^b   Krogfelt, Karen Angeliki ^a  

^a STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CLERMONT AUVERGNE   (France)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NALIDIXIC ACID; STREPTOMYCIN;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; COLONY FORMING UNIT; GASTROINTESTINAL INFECTION; GENE MUTATION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LARGE INTESTINE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0032750807     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.67.11.6152-6156.1999     Document Type: Article

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