The effect that mutations in the conserved capsular polysaccharide biosynthesis genes cpsA, cpsB, and cpsD have on virulence of Streptococcus pneumoniae

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 189, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1905-1913

  Morona, Judy K ^a   Miller, David C ^a   Morona, Renato ^a   Paton, James C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL POLYSACCHARIDE;

ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM COLONY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE MUTATION; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL CAPSULES; BLOTTING, WESTERN; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCOCCAL; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL; PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; VIRULENCE;

EID: 2442673903     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/383352     Document Type: Article

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