Virulence potential of Ehrlichia chaffeensis strains of distinct genome sequences

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 75, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 3604-3613

  Miura, Koshiro ^a   Rikihisa, Yasuko ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANKYRIN; BACTERIAL DNA; ENDOTOXIN; ENVELOPE PROTEIN; PEPTIDOGLYCAN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA MICROARRAY; DNA PURIFICATION; EHRLICHIA CHAFFEENSIS; EHRLICHIOSIS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GRANULOMATOUS INFLAMMATION; HEME GENE; INFLAMMATION; INOCULATION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OMP 1 GENE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; EHRLICHIA CHAFFEENSIS; EHRLICHIOSIS; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; HUMANS; LIVER; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; MICE, SCID; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VIRULENCE;

EID: 34447255930     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.02028-06     Document Type: Article

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