Identification of genes preferentially expressed by highly virulent piscine Streptococcus agalactiae upon interaction with macrophages

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Guo, Chang Ming ^a   Chen, Rong Rong ^a   Kalhoro, Dildar Hussain ^a   Wang, Zhao Fei ^a   Liu, Guang Jin ^a   Lu, Cheng Ping ^a   Liu, Yong Jie ^a  

^a NANJING AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN INFECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GROUP B STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTION; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; IN VITRO STUDY; INTERNALIZATION; MACROPHAGE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHAGOCYTOSIS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENES, BACTERIAL; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; MACROPHAGES; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PHAGOCYTOSIS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84894622683     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0087980     Document Type: Article

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