On the role of Staphylococcus aureus sortase and sortase-catalyzed surface protein anchoring in murine septic arthritis

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 185, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 1417-1424

  Jonsson, Ing Marie ^a   Mazmanian, Sarkis K ^b   Schneewind, Olaf ^b   Verdrengh, Margareta ^a   Bremell, Tomas ^a   Tarkowski, Andrzej ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; SORTASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ARTHRITIS; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CATALYSIS; CATALYST; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MODEL; FEMALE; INFLAMMATION; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SYNOVITIS;

AMINOACYLTRANSFERASES; ANIMALS; ARTHRITIS, INFECTIOUS; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CYSTEINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; JOINT CAPSULE; LEUKOPENIA; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MUTATION; NEUTROPHILS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SYNOVITIS; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0037093930     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/340503     Document Type: Article

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