Virulence of Burkholderia mallei quorum-sensing mutants

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 81, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1471-1478

  Majerczyk, Charlotte ^a   Kinman, Loren ^a   Han, Tony ^a   Bunt, Richard ^b   Greenberg, E Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

N ACYLHOMOSERINE LACTONE;

AEROSOL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BURKHOLDERIA MALLEI; CELL GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME DEGRADATION; GLANDERS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUORUM SENSING;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BURKHOLDERIA INFECTIONS; BURKHOLDERIA MALLEI; CELLS, CULTURED; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MACROPHAGES; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; QUORUM SENSING; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84877825792     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00048-13     Document Type: Article

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