Virulence of a spaP mutant of Streptococcus mutans in a gnotobiotic rat model

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 1201-1206

  Crowley, Paula J ^a   Brady, L Jeannine ^a   Michalek, Suzanne M ^b   Bleiweis, Arnold S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; DENTAL CARIES; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GNOTOBIOTICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS;

EID: 0033008430     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.67.3.1201-1206.1999     Document Type: Article

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