Hemolytic and hemagglutinating activities of Prevotella intermedia and Prevotella nigrescens

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 178, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 299-304

  Okamoto, Masaaki ^a   Maeda, Nobuko ^a   Kondo, Kenichiro ^a   Leung, Kai P ^b  

^a TSURUMI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Hemagglutination; Hemolysis; phg; Prevotella intermedia; Prevotella nigrescens

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE; GINGIVITIS; HEMAGGLUTINATION; HEMOLYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVOTELLA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; VINCENT STOMATITIS;

ANIMALS; HEMAGGLUTINATION; HEMAGGLUTININS; HEMOLYSIS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVOTELLA; PREVOTELLA INTERMEDIA; RABBITS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S;

PREVOTELLA INTERMEDIA; PREVOTELLA NIGRESCENS;

EID: 0032854885     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(99)00372-9     Document Type: Article

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