Global transcriptional response to mammalian temperature provides new insight into Francisella tularensis pathogenesis

BMC Microbiology

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Horzempa, Joseph ^a   Carlson Jr , Paul E ^a   O'Dee, Dawn M ^a   Shanks, Robert M Q ^a,b   Nau, Gerard J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CHICKEN; DENDRITIC CELL; EMBRYO; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CODE; HOST CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MACROPHAGE; MAMMAL; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PHAGOCYTE; SURVIVAL; WILD TYPE; ANIMAL; CELL CULTURE; CHICK EMBRYO; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOUSE; MUTATION; PATHOGENICITY; PLASMID; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TULAREMIA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FRANCISELLA; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; MAMMALIA;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL RNA;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BODY TEMPERATURE; CELLS, CULTURED; CHICK EMBRYO; DENDRITIC CELLS; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MACROPHAGES; MICE; MUTATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PLASMIDS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, BACTERIAL; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TULAREMIA;

EID: 55149115099     PISSN: 14712180     EISSN: 14712180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2180-8-172     Document Type: Article

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