Alcohol increases hemolysis by staphylococci

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 269, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 153-159

  Korem, Moshe ^a   Gov, Yael ^a   Shirron, Natali ^a   Shuster, Amir ^a   Rosenberg, Mel ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Bacterial pathogenesis; Ethanol; Hemolysis; MACH (microbial alcohol conferred hemolysis); n butanol; RNAIII

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; BUTANOL; HEMOLYSIN; LIPID;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLYSIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HEMOLYSIS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS HOMINIS; UPREGULATION; VIRULENCE;

1-BUTANOL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ETHANOL; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; HEMOLYSIS; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; RNA, MESSENGER; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; UP-REGULATION; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS HOMINIS;

EID: 33847614000     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2006.00625.x     Document Type: Article

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