Virulence effect of Enterococcus faecalis protease genes and the quorum-sensing locus fsr in Caenorhabditis elegans and mice

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 70, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 5647-5650

  Sifri, Costi D ^a   Mylonakis, Eleftherios ^a   Singh, Kavindra V ^a   Qin, Xiang ^a   Garsin, Danielle A ^a   Murray, Barbara E ^a   Ausubel, Frederick M ^a   Calderwood, Stephen B ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEINASE;

ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL PERITONITIS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELETION MUTANT; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; HOST; INTESTINE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FEMALE; GELATINASES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; SEQUENCE DELETION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0036786499     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.70.10.5647-5650.2002     Document Type: Article

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