Burkholderia pseudomallei virulence: Definition, stability and association with clonality

Microbes and Infection

Volumn 3, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 621-631

  Ulett, Glen C ^a   Currie, Bart J ^b   Clair, Timothy W ^a   Mayo, Mark ^b   Ketheesan, Natkunam ^c   Labrooy, Justin ^c   Gal, Daniel ^b   Norton, Robert ^d   Smith, Chris Ashhurst ^d   Barnes, Jodie ^a   Warner, Jeffrey ^a   Hirst, Robert G ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MENZIES SCHOOL OF HEALTH RESEARCH   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d TOWNSVILLE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Attenuation; Burkholderia pseudomallei; Clonality; Melioidosis; Virulence

Indexed keywords

ARABINOSE; FERRIC CITRATE; IRON;

ADULT; AGED; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BURKHOLDERIA PSEUDOMALLEI; CELL STRAIN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLONY FORMING UNIT; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LETHAL DOSE; MALE; MELIOIDOSIS; MORPHOLOGY; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA;

ARA; BURKHOLDERIA; BURKHOLDERIA PSEUDOMALLEI; MURINAE; PROTEA;

EID: 0034975029     PISSN: 12864579     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1286-4579(01)01417-4     Document Type: Article

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