Haemophilus Responses to Nutritional Immunity: Epigenetic and Morphological Contribution to Biofilm Architecture, Invasion, Persistence and Disease Severity

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Szelestey, Blake R ^a   Heimlich, Derek R ^a   Raffel, Forrest K ^a   Justice, Sheryl S ^a,b   Mason, Kevin M ^a,b  

^a THE RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT NATIONWIDE CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HEME; IRON; MITOMYCIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BIOFILM; CHINCHILLA; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPIGENETICS; ERYTHEMA; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; INTERNALIZATION; INTRACELLULAR BACTERIUM; IRON RESTRICTION; MIXED INFECTION; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT; OTITIS MEDIA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VASODILATATION;

ANIMALS; BIOFILMS; CHINCHILLA; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; HAEMOPHILUS; HAEMOPHILUS INFECTIONS; HEME; HUMANS; IRON; OTITIS MEDIA; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84887273313     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1003709     Document Type: Article

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