Influence of PhoP and intra-species variations on virulence of Yersinia pseudotuberculosis during the natural oral infection route

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Pisano, Fabio ^a   Heine, Wiebke ^a   Rosenheinrich, Maik ^a   Schweer, Janina ^a   Nuss, Aaron M ^a   Dersch, Petra ^a  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR INFECTION RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GROWTH INHIBITION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; IMMUNOMODULATION; INNATE IMMUNITY; MACROPHAGE; MOUSE; MOUTH INFECTION; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; PHOP GENE; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS INFECTION; ANIMAL; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; BLOOD; CELL LINE; CELL SURVIVAL; CYTOLOGY; DISEASE MODEL; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MORTALITY; MOUTH DISEASE; MUTATION; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPLEEN; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CHEMOKINE; CYTOKINE; PHOP PROTEIN, BACTERIA; PHOQ PROTEIN, BACTERIA;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL LINE; CELL SURVIVAL; CHEMOKINES; CYTOKINES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; IMMUNITY, INNATE; MACROPHAGES; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MOUTH DISEASES; MUTATION; SPLEEN; VIRULENCE; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS INFECTIONS;

EID: 84905046223     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0103541     Document Type: Article

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