Exopolysaccharide production by mucoid and non-mucoid strains of Burkholderia cepacia

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 185, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 243-246

  Cérantola, Stéphane ^a   Bounéry, Jean Dominique ^a   Segonds, Christine ^b   Marty, Nicole ^b   Montrozier, Henri ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE PHARMACOLOGIE ET DE BIOLOGIE STRUCTURALE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

Author keywords

Burkholderia cepacia; Cystic fibrosis; Exopolysaccharide

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BURKHOLDERIA CEPACIA; CARBOHYDRATE ANALYSIS; CARBOHYDRATE SYNTHESIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BURKHOLDERIA CEPACIA; BURKHOLDERIA INFECTIONS; CARBOHYDRATE SEQUENCE; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GAS; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL;

BURKHOLDERIA; BURKHOLDERIA CEPACIA;

EID: 0342858810     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(00)00099-9     Document Type: Article

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