Identification, distribution, and expression of novel genes in 10 clinical isolates of nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 73, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 3479-3491

  Shen, Kai ^a   Antalis, Patricia ^a   Gladitz, John ^a   Sayeed, Sameera ^a,e   Ahmed, Azad ^a   Yu, Shujun ^a   Hayes, Jay ^a   Johnson, Sandra ^a   Dice, Bethany ^a   Dopico, Richard ^a   Keefe, Randy ^a   Janto, Benjamin ^a   Chong, William ^a,f   Goodwin, Joseph ^a,g   Wadowsky, Robert M ^c   Erdos, Geza ^a,b   Post, J Christopher ^a,b   Ehrlich, Garth D ^a,b,d   Hu, Fen Z ^a,b  

^a ALLEGHENY SINGER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^d ALLEGHENY GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f TEMPLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g Ohio Valley Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CHILD; CHRONIC OTITIS MEDIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE EAR EFFUSION; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMIC ISLANDS; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, AMINO ACID; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 23S; VIRULENCE;

EID: 21144481024     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.73.6.3479-3491.2005     Document Type: Article

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