Characterization of the importance of polysaccharide intercellular adhesin/hemagglutinin of Staphylococcus epidermidis in the pathogenesis of biomaterial-based infection in a mouse foreign body infection model

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 67, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 2627-2632

  Rupp, Mark E ^a,c   Ulphani, Joseph S ^a   Fey, Paul D ^a   Bartscht, Katrin ^b   Mack, Dietrich ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^c NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESIN; BIOMATERIAL; FIBRINOGEN; FIBRONECTIN; HEMAGGLUTININ; POLYSACCHARIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BIOFILM; CATHETER INFECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOREIGN BODY; GRAFT INFECTION; HOST RESISTANCE; INTRAVENOUS CATHETER; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SKIN ABSCESS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS;

EID: 0032899375     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.67.5.2627-2632.1999     Document Type: Article

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