Use of green fluorescent protein in visualisation of pneumococcal invasion of broncho-epithelial cells in vivo

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 194, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 105-110

  Kadioglu, Aras ^a   Sharpe, Jason A ^a   Lazou, Irene ^b   Svanborg, Catharina ^b   Ockleford, Colin ^a   Mitchell, Tim J ^c   Andrew, Peter W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSLOCATION; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; FEMALE; INTERNALIZATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL ADHESION; BLOOD; BRONCHI; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FEMALE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; LUNG; MICE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; PLASMIDS; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL;

EID: 0035163986     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(00)00497-3     Document Type: Article

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