Identification of a Burkholderia mallei polysaccharide gene cluster by subtractive hybridization and demonstration that the encoded capsule is an essential virulence determinant

Microbial Pathogenesis

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 253-269

  DeShazer, David ^a   Waag, David M ^a   Fritz, David L ^a   Woods, Donald E ^b  

^a UNITED STATES ARMY MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Glanders; Melioidosis; Pathogenesis and animal model

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL POLYSACCHARIDE; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BURKHOLDERIA; BURKHOLDERIA MALLEI; BURKHOLDERIA THAILANDENSIS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GENE CLUSTER; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HAMSTER; HORSE DISEASE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BURKHOLDERIA; BURKHOLDERIA MALLEI; BURKHOLDERIA MALLEI ATCC 23344; BURKHOLDERIA PSEUDOMALLEI; BURKHOLDERIA THAILANDENSIS; CRICETINAE; EQUUS CABALLUS; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0034987248     PISSN: 08824010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/mpat.2000.0430     Document Type: Article

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