The dependence of the Yersinia pestis capsule on pathogenesis is influenced by the mouse background

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 644-652

  Weening, Eric H ^a   Cathelyn, Jason S ^b   Kaufman, Greer ^b   Lawrenz, Matthew B ^a,b,c   Price, Paul ^b   Goldman, William E ^b   Miller, Virginia L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN CAF1; PROTEIN PSAA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL LOAD; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BUBONIC INFECTION; C57BL 6 MOUSE; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; LD 50; MICROBIAL ATTENUATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PLAGUE; PNEUMONIC INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TARGETING; SKIN INFECTION; WILD TYPE; YERSINIA INFECTION; YERSINIA PESTIS;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL CAPSULES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; LUNG; LYMPH NODES; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PLAGUE; YERSINIA PESTIS;

EID: 79251480038     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00981-10     Document Type: Article

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