Effects of short interfering RNA against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus coagulase in vitro and in vivo

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 122-126

  Yanagihara, Katsunori ^a,b   Tashiro, Miwa ^b   Fukuda, Yuichi ^a   Ohno, Hideaki ^a   Higashiyama, Yasuhito ^a   Miyazaki, Yoshitsugu ^a   Hirakata, Yoichi ^a   Tomono, Kazunori ^a   Mizuta, Yohei ^a   Tsukamoto, Kazuhiro ^a,b   Kohno, Shigeru ^a,b  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Murine model; Pathogenesis; Pulmonary infections

Indexed keywords

COAGULASE; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BODY BURDEN; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; ISOTOPE LABELING; LUNG INFECTION; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN TARGETING; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SYNTHESIS; RODENT; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; TITRIMETRY;

ANIMALS; COAGULASE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GENE SILENCING; GENE TARGETING; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; MICE; PNEUMONIA, STAPHYLOCOCCAL; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 30344470488     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: 14602091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dki416     Document Type: Article

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