Salmonella enterica serovar typhimurium mutants unable to convert malate to pyruvate and oxaloacetate are avirulent and immunogenic in BALB/c mice

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1397-1405

  Mercado Lubo, Regino ^a   Leatham, Mary P ^a   Conway, Tyrrell ^b   Cohen, Paul S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; FUMARIC ACID; MALIC ACID; ORNITHINE; OXALOACETIC ACID; PYRUVIC ACID; SUCCINIC ACID; SUCCINYL COENZYME A; FUMARIC ACID DERIVATIVE; MALIC ACID DERIVATIVE; SUCCINIC ACID DERIVATIVE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CITRIC ACID CYCLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNITY; IMMUNOGENICITY; IN VIVO STUDY; METABOLISM; MOUSE; MOUTH INFECTION; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SEROTYPE; TYPHIMURIUM; VIRULENCE; WILD TYPE; ANIMAL; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; CULTURE MEDIUM; FEMALE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; IMMUNOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MORTALITY; MUTATION; PATHOGENICITY; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SALMONELLOSIS;

ANIMALS; CITRIC ACID CYCLE; CULTURE MEDIA; FEMALE; FUMARATES; MALATES; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MUTATION; OXALOACETATE; PYRUVIC ACID; SALMONELLA INFECTIONS; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SUCCINATES; VIRULENCE;

EID: 63149150670     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.01335-08     Document Type: Article

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