Article
Association between M. pneumoniae hemolysis, attachment, and pulmonary pathogenicity.
The Yale journal of biology and medicine - 1 Jan 2000
Yayoshi M
Abstract excerpt
Three different groups of hemolysis mutants were produced by treatment of the M. pneumoniae FH-P24 strain with N-methyl-N-nitro-nitrosoguanidine. The first group of mutants, strains P24-L1, L2, and L11, showed wide and clear hemolytic zones, and attaching ability to erythrocytes and to hamster lu...
Topics
- Adhesiveness
- Animals
- Cilia
- Cricetinae
- Hemadsorption
- Hemolysin Proteins
- Hemolysis
- Humans
- Lung
- Mutation
- Mycoplasma pneumoniae
- Trachea
- Virulence