Evaluation of a Yersinia pestis mutant impaired in a thermoregulated type VI-like secretion system in flea, macrophage and murine models

Microbial Pathogenesis

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 243-251

  Robinson, Jennilee B ^a   Telepnev, Maxim V ^a   Zudina, Irina V ^a   Bouyer, Donald ^a   Montenieri, John A ^b   Bearden, Scott W ^b   Gage, Kenneth L ^b   Agar, Stacy L ^a   Foltz, Sheri M ^a   Chauhan, Sadhana ^a   Chopra, Ashok K ^a   Motin, Vladimir L ^a  

^a University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

Macrophage; Murine model; Plague; Type VI secretion system; Xenopsylla cheopis; Yersinia pestis

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CELL DIVISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FLEA; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; MACROPHAGE; MICROBIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PHENOTYPE; PLAGUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; TYPE VI SECRETION SYSTEM; YERSINIA PESTIS;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; FLEAS; HUMANS; MACROPHAGES; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MICE; MUTATION; PLAGUE; SEQUENCE DELETION; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE; YERSINIA PESTIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MURINAE; NEGIBACTERIA; SIPHONAPTERA (FLEAS); XENOPSYLLA CHEOPIS; YERSINIA PESTIS;

EID: 70350225545     PISSN: 08824010     EISSN: 10961208     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.micpath.2009.08.005     Document Type: Article

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