Identification of meningococcal genes necessary for colonization of human upper airway tissue

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 45-51

  Exley, Rachel M ^a   Sim, Richard ^b   Goodwin, Linda ^c   Winterbotham, Megan ^a   Schneider, Muriel C ^a   Read, Robert C ^c   Tang, Christoph M ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b SOUTHMEAD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITHELIUM CELL; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INSERTION; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MENINGOCOCCOSIS; NASOPHARYNX; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSPOSON; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION;

ADHESINS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL ADHESION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; NASOPHARYNX; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 58449111033     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00968-08     Document Type: Article

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