Genome-wide screen of Salmonella genes expressed during infection in pigs, using in vivo expression technology

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 73, Issue 23, 2007, Pages 7522-7530

  Huang, Yanyan ^a,b   Leming, Christopher L ^b   Suyemoto, Mitsu ^b   Altier, Craig ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLONING; DNA; KETONES; NUCLEIC ACIDS; ORGANIC ACIDS; SENSOR NETWORKS;

BACTERIAL ADHESION; CLINICAL SIGNS; DNA FRAGMENTS; ENVIRONMENTAL SIGNALS; EXPRESSED GENES; GENES ENCODING; GENOMIC LIBRARIES; HEAT SHOCKS; HIGH TEMPERATURE; IN-VIVO; OSMOLARITY; SALMONELLA ENTERICA SEROVAR TYPHIMURIUM; TWO-COMPONENT; WIDE SCREEN;

GENES;

AROMATIC COMPOUND; CYANOCOBALAMIN; DNA FRAGMENT; IRON SULFUR PROTEIN; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; ZINC; RECOMBINASE;

BACTERIUM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME; HIGH TEMPERATURE; INFECTIVITY; PIG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BCFA GENE; FIMBRIA; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LIBRARY; GENETIC SCREENING; HEAT SHOCK; HSCA GENE; HYDH GENE; IN VIVO STUDY; INTESTINE; METL GENE; NONHUMAN; RFFG GENE; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SALMONELLOSIS; SWINE; TONSIL; YCIR GENE; ANIMAL; BACTERIAL GENOME; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PROMOTER REGION; SALMONELLA; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA ENTERICA SUBSP. ENTERICA SEROVAR TYPHIMURIUM; SUIDAE;

ANIMALS; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; IRON-SULFUR PROTEINS; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECOMBINASES; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA INFECTIONS; SWINE; VIRULENCE; VITAMIN B 12;

EID: 38449114189     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01481-07     Document Type: Article

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