Group B Streptococcal β-Hemolysin promotes injury of lung microvascular endothelial cells

Pediatric Research

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 626-634

  Gibson, Ronald L ^a   Nizet, Victor ^b   Rubens, Craig E ^a   McMenamin, Paul ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA HEMOLYSIN; HEMOLYSIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTHELIUM INJURY; HEMOLYSIS; LUNG EDEMA; LUNG ENDOTHELIUM; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIA; SWINE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL DEATH; CELLS, CULTURED; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; HEMOLYSIS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; L-LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; MICROCIRCULATION; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PULMONARY CIRCULATION; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SERUM ALBUMIN, BOVINE; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; SWINE;

EID: 0032909112     PISSN: 00313998     EISSN: 15300447     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1203/00006450-199905010-00003     Document Type: Article

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