Article
Relationship between colony morphology and the life cycle of Haemophilus influenzae: the contribution of lipopolysaccharide phase variation to pathogenesis.
The Journal of infectious diseases - 1 Sept 1993
Weiser J N
Abstract excerpt
Colonies of Haemophilus influenzae are heterogeneous in appearance because of phase variation in opacity. The only cell surface component found to have structural variation correlating with differences in opacity was the lipopolysaccharide (LPS). Changes in LPS structure, seen as migration patter...
Topics
- Animals
- Animals, Newborn
- Bacterial Outer Membrane Proteins
- Blood Bactericidal Activity
- Cell Cycle
- Cell Membrane
- Fimbriae, Bacterial
- Genetic Variation
- Haemophilus Infections
- Haemophilus influenzae
- Lipopolysaccharides
- Morphogenesis
- Phenotype
- Rats
- Rats, Sprague-Dawley
- Virulence