Human Fusobacterium necrophorum strains have a leukotoxin gene and exhibit leukotoxic activity

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 225-231

  Tadepalli, Sambasivarao ^a,c   Stewart, George C ^b   Nagaraja, T G ^a   Narayanan, Sanjeev K ^a  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^c Novartis Animal Health US Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEUKOTOXIN; RNA 16S; SPACER DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL VIABILITY; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CATTLE; CELL VIABILITY; CYTOTOXICITY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FUSOBACTERIUM NECROPHORUM; GENOTYPE; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LEUKOCYTE; LKTA GENE; LKTB GENE; LKTC GENE; NECROSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PHENOTYPE; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TOXIN ANALYSIS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, INTERGENIC; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; EXOTOXINS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FUSOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS; FUSOBACTERIUM NECROPHORUM; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 38949130120     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.47598-0     Document Type: Article

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