Pseudomonas aeruginosa gene products PilT and PilU are required for cytotoxicity in vitro and virulence in a mouse model of acute pneumonia

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 67, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 3625-3630

  Comolli, James C ^a,d   Hauser, Alan R ^a,e   Waite, Leslie ^a   Whitchurch, Cynthia B ^b   Mattick, John S ^b   Engel, Joanne N ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^e NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESIN; GENE PRODUCT; NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BACTERIUM PILUS; CELL ADHESION; CELL DAMAGE; CELL MOTILITY; CYTOTOXICITY; EPITHELIUM CELL; GENE INACTIVATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LOBAR PNEUMONIA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 0032968052     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.67.7.3625-3630.1999     Document Type: Article

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