Selection for phase variation of los biosynthetic genes frequently occurs in progression of non-typeable haemophilus influenzae infection from the nasopharynx to the middle ear of human patients

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Fox, Kate L ^b   Atack, John M ^a   Srikhanta, Yogitha N ^a,d   Eckert, Anja ^b   Novotny, Laura A ^c   Bakaletz, Lauren O ^c   Jennings, Michael P ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

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

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIPOOLIGOSACCHARIDE; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA STRUCTURE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SWITCHING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMAN; LIPOOLIGOSACCHARIDE GENE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; OTITIS MEDIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHINOPHARYNGITIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TETRANUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; CHILD; DISEASE COURSE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; HAEMOPHILUS INFECTION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE EAR; NASOPHARYNX; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; CHILD; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DNA, BACTERIAL; EAR, MIDDLE; HAEMOPHILUS INFECTIONS; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMANS; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; NASOPHARYNX; OTITIS MEDIA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84896529902     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0090505     Document Type: Article

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