Epidemiology of invasive Klebsiella pneumoniae with hypermucoviscosity phenotype in a research colony of nonhuman primates

Comparative Medicine

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 589-597

  Burke, Robin L ^a   Whitehouse, Chris A ^a   Taylor, Justin K ^a   Selby, Edward B ^a  

^a UNITED STATES ARMY MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN MAGA; PROTEIN RMPA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; DNA DETERMINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE INFECTION; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, LABORATORY; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MACACA MULATTA; MUCUS; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VISCOSITY;

EID: 76049126638     PISSN: 15320820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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