The capsule supports survival but not traversal of Escherichia coli K1 across the blood-brain barrier

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 67, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 3566-3570

  Hoffman, Jill A ^a,b   Wass, Carol ^a   Stins, Monique F ^a   Kim, Kwang Sik ^a,b  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN BLOOD VESSEL; CELL INVASION; CELL SURVIVAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MENINGITIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM;

EID: 0033005681     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.67.7.3566-3570.1999     Document Type: Article

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