The Siderophore Receptor IroN, but Not the High-Pathogenicity Island or the Hemin Receptor ChuA, Contributes to the Bacteremic Step of Escherichia coli Neonatal Meningitis

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 1216-1220

  Nègre, Valérie Lefranc ^a   Bonacorsi, Stéphane ^a   Schubert, Soren ^b   Bidet, Philippe ^a   Nassif, Xavier ^c   Bingen, Edouard ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d HÔPITAL ROBERT DEBRÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMIN; IRON; MEMBRANE RECEPTOR; SIDEROPHORE;

ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID EXAMINATION; CHUA GENE; COLONY FORMING UNIT; FYUA GENE; IRON GENE; IRON TRANSPORT; MENINGITIS; NEWBORN INFECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTOR GENE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; IRON; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0842347870     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.72.2.1216-1220.2004     Document Type: Article

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