The haem-haemopexin utilization gene cluster (hxuCBA) as a virulence factor of Haemophilus influenzae

Microbiology

Volumn 153, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 215-224

  Morton, Daniel J ^a   Seale, Thomas W ^a   Madore, Larissa L ^a   VanWagoner, Timothy M ^a   Whitby, Paul W ^a   Stull, Terrence L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; AMPICILLIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; HEMOPEXIN; KANAMYCIN; SPECTINOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; GENE CLUSTER; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RAT; SURVIVAL RATE;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, SUCKLING; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; HAEMOPHILUS INFECTIONS; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HEME; HEMOPEXIN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; POINT MUTATION; RATS; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; RATTUS;

EID: 33846333169     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.2006/000190-0     Document Type: Article

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