Tolerance of a phage element by Streptococcus pneumoniae leads to a fitness defect during colonization

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 196, Issue 14, 2014, Pages 2670-2680

  DeBardeleben, Hilary K ^a   Lysenko, Elena S ^a   Dalia, Ankur B ^b   Weisera, Jeffrey N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERYTHROMYCIN; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; SPECTINOMYCIN; TRANS ACTING FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CELL WALL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPISOME; FEMALE; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE EXPRESSION; IN VITRO STUDY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARRIER STATE; MICE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; PENICILLINS; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; PROPHAGES; STREPTOCOCCUS PHAGES; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 84903386089     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.01556-14     Document Type: Article

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