Mitis group streptococci express variable pilus islet 2 pili

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Zähner, Dorothea ^a,d   Gandhi, Ashish R ^a   Yi, Hong ^c   Stephens, David S ^a,b,d  

^a Division of Infectious Diseases   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d ATLANTA VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; NUCLEOTIDE; POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY; PROTEIN PITA; PROTEIN PITB; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIGEN ANTIBODY REACTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM PILUS; CROSS REACTION; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN VARIANT; PSEUDOGENE; STREPTOCOCCUS MITIS; STREPTOCOCCUS ORALIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS SANGUINIS; WILD TYPE; FIMBRIA; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; STREPTOCOCCUS MITIS; STREPTOCOCCUS ORALIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS SANGUINIS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STREPTOCOCCUS MITIS; STREPTOCOCCUS ORALIS; STREPTOCOCCUS SANGUIS;

EID: 84857066693     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0025124     Document Type: Article

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