Phase variation in Bartonella henselae

Microbiology

Volumn 149, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 621-629

  Kyme, Pierre ^a   Dillon, Belinda ^a   Iredell, Jonathan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGAR; BACTERIUM LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PILIN;

ACID FAST BACTERIUM; AGGLUTINATION TEST; AGING; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM PILUS; BARTONELLA HENSELAE; BIOFILM; CAT; CELL INVASION; CELL LINE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL STIMULATION; COMPETITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DNA FINGERPRINTING; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; EPITHELIUM CELL; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GROWTH RATE; IN VITRO STUDY; LIQUID; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PHASE TRANSITION; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION GROWTH; PREDICTION; PRESERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN VARIANT; RESTRICTION SITE; REVIEW; SEROTYPE; SOLID; SUSPENSION;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BARTONELLA HENSELAE; BIOFILMS; CAT DISEASES; CAT-SCRATCH DISEASE; CATS; CULTURE MEDIA; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; HUMANS; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; PHENOTYPE; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BARTONELLA HENSELAE; FELIS CATUS; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0037352490     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.26014-0     Document Type: Review

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