The major surface-associated saccharides of Klebsiella pneumoniae contribute to host cell association

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 2008, Pages

  Clements, Abigail ^a   Gaboriaud, Fabien ^b   Duval, Jérôme F L ^c   Farn, Jacinta L ^a   Jenney, Adam W ^a   Lithgow, Trevor ^d   Wijburg, Odilia L C ^a   Hartland, Elizabeth L ^a   Strugnell, Richard A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b Laboratoire de Chimie Physique et Microbiologie pour l'Environnement   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESIN; BACTERIUM LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; CARBOHYDRATE; LIGAND; BACTERIAL POLYSACCHARIDE; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUKARYOTIC CELL; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HOST RESISTANCE; INNATE IMMUNITY; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; CHEMISTRY; MUTATION; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; STATIC ELECTRICITY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE;

ADHESINS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL ADHESION; BACTERIAL CAPSULES; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MUTATION; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL; STATIC ELECTRICITY;

EID: 56849109626     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003817     Document Type: Article

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