An isogenic hemoglobin receptor-deficient mutant of Haemophilus ducreyi is attenuated in the human model of experimental infection

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 181, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 1049-1054

  Al Tawfiq, Jaffar A ^a   Fortney, Kate R ^a   Katz, Barry P ^a   Hood, Antoinette F ^a   Elkins, Christopher ^b   Spinola, Stanley M ^a,c  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Emerson Hall ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HAPTOGLOBIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM MUTANT; FEMALE; HAEMOPHILUS DUCREYI; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PUSTULE; SKIN BIOPSY;

ADULT; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CHANCROID; FEMALE; HAEMOPHILUS DUCREYI; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY, DELAYED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE;

EID: 0034074236     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/315309     Document Type: Article

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