Cytolethal distending toxin is essential for Helicobacter hepaticus colonization in outbred Swiss Webster mice

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 73, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 3559-3567

  Ge, Zhongming ^a   Feng, Yan ^a   Whary, Mark T ^a   Nambiar, Prashant R ^a   Xu, Shilu ^a   Ng, Vivian ^a   Taylor, Nancy S ^a   Fox, James G ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL TOXIN; CYTOKINE; CYTOLETHAL DISTENDING TOXIN; GAMMA INTERFERON; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G2A; INTERLEUKIN 10; MESSENGER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CDTB GENE; CHRONIC HEPATITIS; COLITIS; COLON; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; FEMALE; GENE INACTIVATION; HELICOBACTER HEPATICUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOST RESISTANCE; ILEUM; INTERFERON PRODUCTION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; TOXIN SYNTHESIS;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL TOXINS; FEMALE; HELICOBACTER HEPATICUS; HELICOBACTER INFECTIONS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A, SECRETORY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; INTERFERON TYPE II; INTERLEUKIN-10; MICE; OPERON; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 19744378055     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.73.6.3559-3567.2005     Document Type: Article

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