Leukotoxin confers beta-hemolytic activity to Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 2015-2021

  Balashova, Nataliya V ^a   Crosby, Juan A ^a   Al Ghofaily, Lourdes ^a   Kachlany, Scott C ^a,b  

^a RUTGERS SCHOOL OF DENTAL MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEUKOTOXIN;

ACTINOBACILLUS ACTINOMYCETEMCOMITANS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BETA HEMOLYSIS; CELL DESTRUCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; ERYTHROCYTE STRUCTURE; HEMOLYSIS; LEUKOCYTE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; TOXIN ANALYSIS;

ACTINOBACILLUS ACTINOMYCETEMCOMITANS; ANIMALS; CULTURE MEDIA; ERYTHROCYTES; EXOTOXINS; HEMOLYSIS; HUMANS; MUTAGENESIS; SHEEP;

EID: 33645523450     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.74.4.2015-2021.2006     Document Type: Article

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