Impact of the regulatory loci agr, sarA and sae of Staphylococcus aureus on the induction of α-toxin during device-related infection resolved by direct quantitative transcript analysis

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 1439-1447

  Goerke, Christiane ^a   Fluckiger, Ursula ^b   Steinhuber, Andrea ^a   Zimmerli, Werner ^b   Wolz, Christiane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STAPHYLOCOCCUS ALPHA TOXIN;

AGR GENE; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; DEVICE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GUINEA PIG; HUMAN; INFECTIOUS COMPLICATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATOR GENE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SAE GENE; SARA GENE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; TOXIN ANALYSIS; TOXIN SYNTHESIS;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; EXUDATES AND TRANSUDATES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, REGULATOR; GUINEA PIGS; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; MUTATION; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAVIA PORCELLUS; POSIBACTERIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 0034932885     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2001.02494.x     Document Type: Article

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