Role of the ESAT-6 secretion system in virulence of the emerging community-associated Staphylococcus aureus lineage ST398

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Wang, Yanan ^a   Hu, Mo ^b   Liu, Qian ^a   Qin, Juanxiu ^a   Dai, Yingxin ^a   He, Lei ^a   Li, Tianming ^a   Zheng, Bing ^a   Zhou, Fan ^b   Yu, Kaiwen ^b   Fang, Jingyuan ^a   Liu, Xiaoyun ^b   Otto, Michael ^c   Li, Min ^a  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANIMAL; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL SECRETION SYSTEM; CHINA; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED INFECTION; DISEASE MODEL; GENE DELETION; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOUSE; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; STAPHYLOCOCCAL SKIN INFECTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALS; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL SECRETION SYSTEMS; CHINA; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GENE DELETION; HUMANS; MICE; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL SKIN INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 84964596035     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep25163     Document Type: Article

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