Identification of Streptococcus agalactiae virulence genes in the neonatal rat sepsis model using signature-tagged mutagenesis

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1444-1455

  Jones, A L ^a   Knoll, K M ^a   Rubens, C E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; GENE ASSIGNMENT; MUTAGENESIS; NEWBORN INFECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; LETHAL DOSE 50; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATION; RATS; SEPSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; VIRULENCE;

STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE;

EID: 0033775014     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2000.02099.x     Document Type: Article

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