Heme transport contributes to in vivo fitness of Bordetella pertussis during primary infection in mice

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1741-1744

  Brickman, Timothy J ^a,b   Vanderpool, Carin K ^a,c   Armstrong, Sandra K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BHUR PROTEIN; HEME; HEMIN; IRON; MEMBRANE RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BHUR GENE; BHUS GENE; BHUT GENE; BHUU GENE; BHUV GENE; BINDING AFFINITY; BORDETELLA PERTUSSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REPRESSION; HURIR GENE; IN VIVO STUDY; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; IRON TRANSPORT; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; MIXED INFECTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPERATOR GENE; PATHOGENESIS; PERTUSSIS; PRIMARY INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STARVATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; BORDETELLA INFECTIONS; BORDETELLA PERTUSSIS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HEME; MICE;

EID: 33644749142     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.74.3.1741-1744.2006     Document Type: Article

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