Adenylate cyclase toxin is critical for colonization and pertussis toxin is critical for lethal infection by Bordetella pertussis in infant mice.

doi:10.1128/iai.58.10.3445-3447.1990

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Adenylate cyclase toxin is critical for colonization and pertussis toxin is critical for lethal infection by Bordetella pertussis in infant mice.

Infection and immunity - 1 Oct 1990

Goodwin M S, Weiss A A

Abstract excerpt

Proliferation of Bordetella pertussis in the lungs of infant mice challenged by the intranasal route was examined. The bacteria rapidly proliferated in the lungs of mice challenged with a sublethal dose of a wild-type strain (BP338) or a filamentous hemagglutinin mutant (BPM409) from 500 at day 0...

Topics

Adenylyl Cyclases
Animals
Bordetella pertussis
Colony Count, Microbial
Lung
Mice
Mice, Inbred BALB C
Mutation
Toxoids
Virulence
Whooping Cough

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