Inactivation of clpB in the pathogen Leptospira interrogans reduces virulence and resistance to stress conditions

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 79, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 3711-3717

  Lourdault, Kristel ^a   Cerqueira, Gustavo M ^a,d   Wunder, Elsio A ^b,c   Picardeau, Mathieu ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d Department of Biomedical Science   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CLPB GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE MUTATION; LEPTOSPIRA INTERROGANS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRESS; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CULTURE MEDIA; GERBILLINAE; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; LEPTOSPIRA INTERROGANS; LEPTOSPIROSIS; MOLECULAR CHAPERONES; MUTATION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 80052307960     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.05168-11     Document Type: Article

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