Absence of inflammation and pneumonia during infection with nonpigmented Yersinia pestis reveals a new role for the pgm locus in pathogenesis

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 220-230

  Lee Lewis, Hanni ^a   Anderson, Deborah M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

IRON;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; GENE LOCUS; HOST; INFLAMMATION; LETHALITY; LUNG; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOLOGY; PLAGUE; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL; YERSINIA PESTIS;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; INFLAMMATION; IRON; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; PIGMENTATION; PLAGUE; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; SEPSIS; TIME FACTORS; VIRULENCE; YERSINIA PESTIS;

EID: 73449097490     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00559-09     Document Type: Article

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