The Vibrio parahaemolyticus ToxRS regulator is required for stress tolerance and colonization in a novel orogastric streptomycin-induced adult murine model

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 80, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1834-1845

  Whitaker, W Brian ^a   Parent, Michelle A ^a   Boyd, Aoife ^b   Richards, Gary P ^c   Boyd, E Fidelma ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^c DELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACID; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; BILE SALT; DODECYL SULFATE SODIUM; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN REGULATOR; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN U; STREPTOMYCIN; TOXRS PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL SHEDDING; BACTERIAL STRAIN; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE MUTATION; IN VIVO STUDY; INTESTINE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRESS; TYPE III SECRETION SYSTEM; VIBRIO PARAHAEMOLYTICUS; VIBRIO PARAHAEMOLYTICUS INFECTION;

ADHESINS, BACTERIAL; ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; INTESTINES; MICE; MUTATION; STREPTOMYCIN; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VIBRIO INFECTIONS; VIBRIO PARAHAEMOLYTICUS;

EID: 84861147159     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.06284-11     Document Type: Article

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