Putative ATP-binding cassette transporter is essential for Brucella ovis pathogenesis in mice

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 79, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1706-1717

  Silva, Teane M A ^a   Paixão, Tatiane A ^a   Costa, Érica A ^a   Xavier, Mariana N ^a   Sá, Joicy Cortez ^a,b   Moustacas, Valéria S ^a   den Hartigh, Andreas B ^c   Carvalho Neta, Alcina V ^b   Oliveira, Sérgio C ^a   Tsolis, Renée ^c   Santos, Renato L ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSIDADE ESTADUAL DO MARANHÃO   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; BRUCELLA OVIS; BRUCELLOSIS; C57BL 6 MOUSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDIDYMITIS; LIVER GRANULOMA; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENESIS; PERITONEUM MACROPHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BRUCELLA OVIS; BRUCELLOSIS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 79953299188     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.01109-10     Document Type: Article

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