The capBCA locus is required for intracellular growth of Francisella tularensis LVS

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 2, Issue APR, 2011, Pages

  Su, Jingliang ^a   Asare, Rexford ^b   Yang, Jun ^c   Nair, Manoj Kumar Mohan ^c   Mazurkiewicz, Joseph E ^c   Abu Kwaik, Yousef ^b   Zhang, Jing Ren ^c,d  

^a CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Louisville College of Medicine   (United States)

^c ALBANY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^d Tsinghua University   (China)

Author keywords

CapBCA; Fitness; Francisella tularensis; Macrophage; Virulence

Indexed keywords

FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; MUS;

EID: 84862579338     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2011.00083     Document Type: Article

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