Evaluation of the ability of Streptococcus agalactiae strains isolated from genital and neonatal specimens to bind to human fibrinogen and correlation with characteristics of the fbsA and fbsB genes

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1310-1317

  Rosenau, Agnès ^a   Martins, Karine ^a   Amor, Souheila ^a   Gannier, François ^a   Lanotte, Philippe ^a   Van Der Mee Marquet, Nathalie ^a   Mereghetti, Laurent ^a   Quentin, Roland ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOURS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBRINOGEN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FBSA GENE; FBSB GENE; HUMAN; NEWBORN INFECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEROTYPE; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; CARRIER PROTEINS; FEMALE; FIBRINOGEN; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; PROTEIN BINDING; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; VAGINA;

EID: 33847719147     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00996-06     Document Type: Article

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