Contribution of fucose-containing capsules in Klebsiella pneumoniae to bacterial virulence in mice

Experimental Biology and Medicine

Volumn 233, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 64-70

  June, Hsieh Wu ^a   Wu, Albert M ^b   Cheng, Gie Tsai ^a   Chang, Xin Yu ^a   Tsai, Shih Feng ^c   Wu, Ting Shu ^d  

^a CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (Taiwan)

^b CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTES   (Taiwan)

^d CHANG GUNG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Bacterial capsule; Diabetes mellitus; Enzyme linked immunosorbent assay; Fucose; Lectin binding assay; Liver abscess

Indexed keywords

FUCOSE; LECTIN; MANNOSE; POLYSACCHARIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LECTIN BINDING; LIVER ABSCESS; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PERITONEAL CAVITY; PERITONEUM MACROPHAGE; PHAGOCYTOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SURVIVAL RATE; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL CAPSULES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; FUCOSE; HUMANS; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MACROPHAGES, PERITONEAL; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEROTYPING; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MUS;

EID: 37549007915     PISSN: 15353702     EISSN: 15353699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3181/0706-RM-170     Document Type: Article

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