Intraspecies and temperature-dependent variations in susceptibility of Yersinia pestis to the bactericidal action of serum and to polymyxin B

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 73, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 7324-7331

  Anisimov, Andrey P ^a   Dentovskaya, Svetlana V ^a   Titareva, Galina M ^a   Bakhteeva, Irina V ^a   Shaikhutdinova, Rima Z ^a   Balakhonov, Sergey V ^b   Lindner, Buko ^d   Kocharova, Nina A ^c   Senchenkova, Sof'ya N ^c   Holst, Otto ^d   Pier, Gerald B ^e,f   Knirel, Yuriy A ^c  

^a STATE RESEARCH CENTER FOR APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^b Plague Control Research Institute of Siberia and Far East   (Russian Federation)

^c N D ZELINSKY INSTITUTE OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (Russian Federation)

^d RESEARCH CENTER BORSTEL   (Germany)

^e BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^f CHANNING LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; POLYMYXIN B;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; COLONY FORMING UNIT; FLEA; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HIBERNATION; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INNATE IMMUNITY; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; MAMMAL; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERUM; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; WINTER; YERSINIA; YERSINIA PESTIS;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; POLYMYXIN B; SERUM; TEMPERATURE; YERSINIA PESTIS;

EID: 27744579574     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.73.11.7324-7331.2005     Document Type: Article

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