Article
Characterization of colonization-deficient mutants of Actinobacillus suis.
Veterinary microbiology - 6 Jan 2010
Ojha S, Lacouture S, Gottschalk M, MacInnes J I
Abstract excerpt
Actinobacillus suis is an important opportunistic pathogen of swine that can cause disease in pigs of all ages, especially in high-health status herds. Although A. suis shares many virulence factors in common with Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae and can cause a haemorrhagic pleuropneumonia similar to that caused by A. pleuropneumoniae, A. suis most often causes septicaemia and diseases such as arthritis and...
Topics
- Actinobacillus Infections
- Actinobacillus suis
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Bacterial Adhesion
- Bacterial Outer Membrane Proteins
- Cell Line
- DNA Transposable Elements
- Endothelial Cells
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutagenesis, Insertional
