Moraxella catarrhalis strains with reduced expression of the UspA outer membrane proteins belong to a distinct subpopulation

Vaccine

Volumn 23, Issue 16, 2005, Pages 2000-2008

  Meier, Patricia Stutzmann ^a   Troller, Rolf ^a   Heiniger, Nadja ^a   Grivea, Ioanna N ^b   Syrogiannopoulos, George A ^b   Aebi, Christoph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Moraxella catarrhalis; UspA1; UspA2; Vaccine

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; BACTERIAL VACCINE; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN USPA1; RIBOSOME RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MORAXELLA CATARRHALIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

EID: 14244266645     PISSN: 0264410X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2004.09.036     Document Type: Article

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