InlP, a new virulence factor with strong placental tropism

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 84, Issue 12, 2016, Pages 3584-3596

  Faralla, Cristina ^a,b   Rizzuto, Gabrielle A ^b,c   Lowe, David E ^a,b   Kim, Byoungkwan ^a,b,d   Cooke, Cara ^a,b   Shiow, Lawrence R ^a,b   Bakardjiev, Anna I ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d Celltrion Inc   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IN1P; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRULENCE FACTOR; BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL LOAD; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENOMICS; GUINEA PIG; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; LIFE CYCLE; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIOSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PLACENTA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TROPHOBLAST; TROPISM; VIRULENCE; ANIMAL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GUINEA PIGS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIOSIS; MICE; MOVEMENT; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 85002670845     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00625-16     Document Type: Article

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