RssAB-FlhDC-ShlBA as a major pathogenesis pathway in Serratia marcescens

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 78, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 4870-4881

  Lin, Chuan Sheng ^a   Horng, Jim Tong ^a   Yang, Chun Hung ^a   Tsai, Yu Huan ^a   Su, Lin Hui ^b   Wei, Chia Fong ^a   Chen, Chang Chieh ^a   Hsieh, Shang Chen ^a   Lu, Chia Chen ^c   Lai, Hsin Chih ^a  

^a CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CHANG GUNG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c FU JEN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; FLHDC PROTEIN; HEMOLYSIN; RSSAB PROTEIN; SHLBA PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BIOFILM; CELL MOTILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFLAMMATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REGULATORY MECHANISM; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BRONCHI; CELLS, CULTURED; EPITHELIAL CELLS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; HEMOLYSIS; HUMANS; MALE; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SERRATIA INFECTIONS; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VIRULENCE;

EID: 78049442087     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00661-10     Document Type: Article

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