Identification of a novel virulence determinant with serum opacification activity in Streptococcus suis

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 74, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 6154-6162

  Baums, Christoph G ^a   Kaim, Ute ^a   Fulde, Marcus ^a   Ramachandran, Girish ^a   Goethe, Ralph ^a   Valentin Weigand, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; DODECYL SULFATE SODIUM; ERYTHROMYCIN; FIBRONECTIN; FIBRONECTIN BINDING PROTEIN; KANAMYCIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN FNBA; PROTEIN MSCRAMM; SERUM OPACITY FACTOR; SPECTINOMYCIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; CELL INVASION; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; SEROTYPE; SERUM OPACIFICATION ACTIVITY; STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY; SWINE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; EPITOPES; HORSES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SERUM; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS; SWINE; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 33750481888     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00359-06     Document Type: Article

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