Detection of bacterial virulence genes by subtractive hybridization: Identification of capsular polysaccharide of Burkholderia pseudomallei as a major virulence determinant

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 34-44

  Reckseidler, S L ^a   DeShazer, D ^a   Sokol, P A ^a   Woods, D E ^a  

^a Health Sciences Centre Calgary   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE; BACTERIAL POLYSACCHARIDE; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; THYMIDINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BURKHOLDERIA; BURKHOLDERIA PSEUDOMALLEI; BURKHOLDERIA THAILANDENSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA TRANSFER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE LIBRARY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HYBRIDIZATION; LD 50; MELIOIDOSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SUBTRACTIVE HYBRIDIZATION; SYRIAN HAMSTER;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL CAPSULES; BURKHOLDERIA PSEUDOMALLEI; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CRICETINAE; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASES; MESOCRICETUS; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; O ANTIGENS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0035158601     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.69.1.34-44.2001     Document Type: Article

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