Adaptation of signature-tagged mutagenesis to Escherichia coli K1 and the infant-rat model of invasive disease

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 198, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 125-128

  Gonzalez, Mark D ^a   Lichtensteiger, Carol A ^a   Vimr, Eric R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacterial meningitis; DsbA; Escherichia coli K1; Infectious disease; Polysialic acid capsule; PuvA; RfaL

Indexed keywords

DSBA PROTEIN; GENE PRODUCT; POLYSIALIC ACID; PROTEIN PUVA; PROTEIN RFAL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; DNA SEQUENCE; ENTEROBACTER INFECTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE MUTATION; NEWBORN INFECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; MUTAGENESIS; RATS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPLEEN; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0035339417     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(01)00134-3     Document Type: Article

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