α-2,3-sialyltransferase enhances Neisseria gonorrhoeae survival during experimental murine genital tract infection

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 74, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 4094-4103

  Wu, Hong ^a   Jerse, Ann E ^a  

^a UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA 2,3 SIALYLTRANSFERASE; COMPLEMENT; ESTRADIOL; LIPOOLIGOSACCHARIDE; SIALIC ACID; SIALYLTRANSFERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; BACTERIOLYSIS; COMPLEMENT DEPENDENT CYTOTOXICITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MODEL; FEMALE; GENITAL TRACT INFECTION; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; MOUSE; MUTANT; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NEISSERIACEAE INFECTION; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY BURST; SIALYLATION; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; GENITAL DISEASES, FEMALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PHAGOCYTOSIS; SIALYLTRANSFERASES;

EID: 33745628092     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00433-06     Document Type: Article

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