Lipopolysaccharide O1 antigen contributes to the virulence in Klebsiella pneumoniae causing pyogenic liver abscess

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Hsieh, Pei Fang ^a   Lin, Tzu Lung ^a   Yang, Feng Ling ^b   Wu, Meng Chuan ^a   Pan, Yi Jiun ^a   Wu, Shih Hsiung ^b   Wang, Jin Town ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1,3 GALACTAN; BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; GALACTAN; KLEBSIELLA VACCINE; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE O1 ANTIGEN; O ANTIGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANTISERUM; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CAPSULAR POLYSACCHARIDE K1; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; MAGA PROTEIN, KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; PRIMER DNA; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL MUTATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CLUSTER; GENE SYNTHESIS; IMMUNIZATION; INFECTION PREVENTION; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE INFECTION; MAGA GENE; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PYOGENIC LIVER ABSCESS; SEPTICEMIA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEROLOGY; SEROTYPE; SERUM RESISTANCE; WB GENE; ANIMAL; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOLOGY; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; KLEBSIELLA INFECTION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEROTYPING; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MUS; THESPESIA GRANDIFLORA;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL CAPSULES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; GENOTYPE; IMMUNE SERA; IMMUNOBLOTTING; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; LIVER ABSCESS, PYOGENIC; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEROTYPING; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 84863273999     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0033155     Document Type: Article

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