A novel means of self-protection, unrelated to toxin activation, confers immunity to the bactericidal effects of the Enterococcus faecalis cytolysin

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 67, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 3339-3347

  Coburn, Phillip S ^a   Hancock, Lynn E ^a   Booth, Mary C ^a   Gilmore, Michael S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL TOXIN; CYTOLYSIN; PHEROMONE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INSERTION; HEMOLYSIS; IMMUNIZATION; MUTAGENESIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0032967758     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.67.7.3339-3347.1999     Document Type: Article

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