A contingency locus in prfA in a Listeria monocytogenes subgroup allows reactivation of the prfA virulence regulator during infection in mice

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 77, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 3478-3483

  Lindbäck, Toril ^a   Secic, Indira ^a   Rørvik, Liv Marit ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FISH PROCESSING; HEMOLYTIC ACTIVITY; INTRAPERITONEALLY; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MONOCYTOGENES; PHASE VARIATION; PLAQUE-FORMING ASSAYS; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; REVERSIBLE INACTIVATION;

DISEASES; ELECTROPHORESIS; LISTERIA; STRAIN;

MAMMALS;

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; HEMOLYSIN; PRFA PROTEIN, LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; TRANSLATION TERMINATION FACTOR; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

BACTERIUM; ELECTROKINESIS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; RODENT; VIRULENCE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE MODEL; DNA SEQUENCE; FOOD CONTROL; FOOD INDUSTRY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIOSIS; LIVER; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOLECULAR TYPING; MORTALITY; MOUSE; NORWAY; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SPLEEN; SURVIVAL; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; FOOD INDUSTRY; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; GENOTYPE; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIOSIS; LIVER; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR TYPING; NORWAY; PEPTIDE TERMINATION FACTORS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPLEEN; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

FRANCE; NORWAY;

LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MUS;

EID: 79958190529     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02708-10     Document Type: Article

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