Molecular analysis of the contribution of the capsular polysaccharide and the lipopolysaccharide O side chain to the virulence of Klebsiella pneumoniae in a murine model of pneumonia

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 70, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 2583-2590

  Cortés, Guadalupe ^a   Borrell, Nuria ^a   De Astorza, Beatriz ^a   Gómez, Cristina ^a   Sauleda, Jaume ^a   Albertí, Sebastián ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO SON ESPASES   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL POLYSACCHARIDE; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C3; O ANTIGEN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CELL ENCAPSULATION; COMPLEMENT DEPOSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FATALITY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOST RESISTANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LUNG ALVEOLUS MACROPHAGE; LUNG EDEMA; MALE; MOUSE; NEUTROPHIL CHEMOTAXIS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PLEURISY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROVOCATION TEST; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; VASCULITIS;

BACTERIAL CAPSULES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HUMANS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MACROPHAGES, ALVEOLAR; O ANTIGENS; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0036117885     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.70.5.2583-2590.2002     Document Type: Article

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