Antibacterial activity of a competence-stimulating peptide in experimental sepsis caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 48, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 4725-4732

  Oggioni, Marco R ^a,b   Iannelli, Francesco ^a   Ricci, Susanna ^a   Chiavolini, Damiana ^a   Parigi, Riccardo ^a   Trappetti, Claudia ^a   Claverys, Jean Pierre ^c   Pozzi, Gianni ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF SIENA   (Italy)

^c UPS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPETENCE STIMULATING PEPTIDE; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; PROTEIN HISTIDINE KINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIOSTASIS; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYME ASSAY; GENE MUTATION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; SURVIVAL RATE;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; COLONY-FORMING UNITS ASSAY; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; MICE; MUTAGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; PROTEIN KINASES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEPSIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 9644259079     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.48.12.4725-4732.2004     Document Type: Article

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