A Listeria monocytogenes mutant defective in bacteriophage attachment is attenuated in orally inoculated mice and impaired in enterocyte intracellular growth

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 76, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 4046-4054

  Spears, Patricia A ^a   Suyemoto, M Mitsu ^a   Palermo, Angela M ^a   Horton, John R ^a   Hamrick, Terri S ^b   Havell, Edward A ^a   Orndorff, Paul E ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CAMPBELL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIOPHAGE; CELL CULTURE; CELL GROWTH; CELL SURFACE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE INSERTION; INOCULATION; INTESTINE CELL; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MONOLAYER CULTURE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL ADHESION; BACTERIOPHAGES; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENTEROCYTES; FEMALE; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASES; LISTERIA INFECTIONS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LIVER; MICE; MICE, INBRED A; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PLAQUE ASSAY; RECEPTORS, VIRUS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPLEEN; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS; VIRUS ATTACHMENT;

EID: 51949103023     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00283-08     Document Type: Article

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