The novel virulence-related gene stp of Streptococcus suis serotype 9 strain contributes to a significant reduction in mouse mortality

Microbial Pathogenesis

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 442-453

  Zhu, Haodan ^a   Huang, Dongyan ^a,b   Zhang, Wei ^a   Wu, Zongfu ^a   Lu, Yan ^a   Jia, Hongying ^a   Wang, Ming ^a   Lu, Chengping ^a  

^a NANJING AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b JIANGXI AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Serine threonine protein phosphatase; Streptococcus suis serotype 9; Suppression subtractive hybridization; Virulence

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIABILITY; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CELL ADHESION; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL PIG; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LD 50; MICROMORPHOLOGY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERINE THREONINE PROTEIN PHOSPHATASE GENE; SEROTYPE; STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS; SUPPRESSION SUBTRACTIVE HYBRIDIZATION; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL ADHESION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BLOOD BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; CELL LINE; CHINA; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; HEPATOCYTES; HUMANS; LETHAL DOSE 50; MICE; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOSPHOPROTEIN PHOSPHATASES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

MURINAE; STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS; SUIDAE;

EID: 80054834563     PISSN: 08824010     EISSN: 10961208     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.micpath.2011.08.002     Document Type: Article

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