Bordetella pertussis TonB, a Bvg-independent virulence determinant

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 1919-1927

  Pradel, Elizabeth ^a   Guiso, Nicole ^b   Menozzi, Franco D ^a   Locht, Camille ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR DE LILLE   (France)

^b INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL TOXIN; DNA FRAGMENT;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BORDETELLA PERTUSSIS; IN VIVO STUDY; IRON TRANSPORT; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TITRIMETRY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BORDETELLA PERTUSSIS; CELL LINE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FERRICHROME; FUNGAL PROTEINS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IRON; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; MUTATION; OPERON; PLASMIDS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SIDEROPHORES; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0034100621     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.68.4.1919-1927.2000     Document Type: Article

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