The stringent response is essential for pseudomonas aeruginosa virulence in the rat lung agar bead and drosophila melanogaster feeding models of infection

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 79, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 4094-4104

  Vogt, Stefanie L ^a,c   Green, Christopher ^a   Stevens, Katarzyna M ^a   Day, Brad ^a   Erickson, David L ^b   Woods, Donald E ^a   Storey, Douglas G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGAR; ELASTASE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE PYROPHOSPHOKINASE; IRON; PROTEINASE; PYOCYANINE; SIDEROPHORE;

ABIOTIC STRESS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL LOAD; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; CELL COUNT; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL VIABILITY; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; FEMALE; FLAGELLUM; GENE INSERTION; HEAT SHOCK; LUNG INFECTION; MALE; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTION; RAT; TWITCHING MOTILITY; VIRULENCE;

AGAR; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL LOAD; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GUANOSINE PENTAPHOSPHATE; HEAT-SHOCK RESPONSE; HUMANS; LIGASES; LUNG; MUTATION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTIONS; RATS; VIRULENCE;

EID: 80855127680     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00193-11     Document Type: Article

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