Lmb, a protein with similarities to the LraI adhesin family, mediates attachment of Streptococcus agalactiae to human laminin

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 871-878

  Spellerberg, Barbara ^a   Rozdzinski, Eva ^b   Martin, Simone ^a   Weber Heynemann, Josephine ^a   Schnitzler, Norbert ^a   Lütticken, Rudolf ^a   Podbielski, Andreas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; LAMININ; PROTEIN LMB; PROTEIN LRAI; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BACTERIAL TRANSLOCATION; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; NEWBORN SEPSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE;

EID: 0032963221     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.67.2.871-878.1999     Document Type: Article

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