Genetic requirement for pneumococcal ear infection

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 8, 2008, Pages

  Chen, Huaiqing ^a   Ma, Yueyun ^a,c   Yang, Jun ^a   O'Brien, Christopher J ^a   Lee, Scott L ^a   Mazurkiewicz, Joseph E ^a   Haataja, Sauli ^b   Yan, Jing Hua ^d   Gao, George F ^d   Zhang, Jing Ren ^a  

^a ALBANY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^c FOURTH MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CARRIER PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CHINCHILLA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE MODEL; DNA SEQUENCE; EAR INFECTION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETIC SELECTION; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; IN VIVO STUDY; MIDDLE EAR; MOUSE; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; MUTAGENESIS; NASOPHARYNX; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; OTITIS MEDIA; PATHOGENESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHINCHILLA; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATION; NASOPHARYNX; OTITIS MEDIA; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHINCHILLIDAE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; MORAXELLA CATARRHALIS; MURINAE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 51449100343     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0002950     Document Type: Article

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