The role of Klebsiella pneumoniae rmpA in capsular polysaccharide synthesis and virulence revisited

Microbiology

Volumn 157, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 3446-3457

  Hsu, Chun Ru ^a   Lin, Tzu Lung ^a   Chen, You Ci ^a   Chou, Huei Chi ^a   Wang, Jin Town ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYSACCHARIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ASIA; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CARBOHYDRATE SYNTHESIS; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCUS; IN VIVO STUDY; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LETHAL DOSE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYOGENIC LIVER ABSCESS; RMPA GENE; SEROTYPE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL CAPSULES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; HUMANS; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 82555181633     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.050336-0     Document Type: Article

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