Streptococcus pneumoniae arginine synthesis genes promote growth and virulence in pneumococcal meningitis

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 209, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1781-1791

  Piet, Jurgen R ^a   Geldhoff, Madelijn ^a   Van Schaik, Barbera D C ^a   Brouwer, Matthijs C ^a   Valls Seron, Mercedes ^a   Jakobs, Marja E ^a   Schipper, Kim ^a   Pannekoek, Yvonne ^a   Zwinderman, Aeilko H ^a   Van Der Poll, Tom ^b   Van Kampen, Antoine H C ^a,c   Baas, Frank ^a   Van Der Ende, Arie ^a   Van De Beek, Diederik ^a  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

arginine synthesis; bacterial meningitis; Streptococcus pneumoniae; virulence; whole genome sequencing

Indexed keywords

ARGININE;

ADULT; AGED; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARGININE SYNTHESIS GENE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BIOSYNTHESIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PNEUMOCOCCAL MENINGITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

ARGININE SYNTHESIS; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; VIRULENCE; WHOLE GENOME SEQUENCING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; ARGININE; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MALE; MENINGITIS, PNEUMOCOCCAL; MICE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCOCCAL; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84900532676     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: 15376613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jit818     Document Type: Article

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