Virulence of Streptococcus pneumoniae may be determined independently of capsular polysaccharide

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 233, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 147-152

  Mizrachi Nebenzahl, Y ^a,b   Porat, N ^a,b   Lifshitz, S ^a,b   Novick, S ^a,b   Levi, A ^a   Ling, E ^a,b   Liron, O ^a,b   Mordechai, S ^a   Sahu, R K ^a   Dagan, R ^b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Capsular polysaccharide; Microbial pathogenesis; Streptococcus pneumoniae; Virulence factors

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL POLYSACCHARIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CELL SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; INOCULATION; MORTALITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONTENT; REACTION TIME; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIA; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; SURVIVAL RATE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL CAPSULES; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; LUNG; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 12144286338     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.femsle.2004.02.003     Document Type: Article

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