Identification of Burkholderia cenocepacia strain H111 virulence factors using nonmammalian infection hosts

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 143-153

  Schwager, Stephan ^a   Agnoli, Kirsty ^a   Köthe, Manuela ^a,d   Feldmann, Friederike ^a,e   Givskov, Michael ^b,c   Carlier, Aurelien ^a   Eberl, Leo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^d ratiopharm GmbH   (Germany)

^e ROCHE DIAGNOSTICS GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROK PROTEIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CEPR PROTEIN; PURD PROTEIN; PURL PROTEIN; PYRD PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BURKHOLDERIA CENOCEPACIA; BURKHOLDERIA INFECTION; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MODEL; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; GALLERIA MELLONELLA; GENE INSERTION; GENE MUTATION; MALE; MOLECULAR LIBRARY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BURKHOLDERIA CENOCEPACIA; BURKHOLDERIA INFECTIONS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MUTATION; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 84871860505     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00768-12     Document Type: Article

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