Article
The role of hemolysin(s) in the pathogenesis of Serpulina hyodysenteriae.
Zentralblatt fur Bakteriologie : international journal of medical microbiology - 1 Apr 1993
ter Huurne A A, Muir S, van Houten M, Koopman M B, Kusters J G, van der Zeijst B A, Gaastra W
Abstract excerpt
Serpulina (Treponema) hyodysenteriae, an anaerobic beta hemolytic spirochaete, is the etiologic agent of swine dysentery. Not much is known at present about the virulence factors of S. hyodysenteriae. However, the hemolysin production of this bacterium is generally accepted to be a virulence fact...
Topics
- Animals
- Brachyspira hyodysenteriae
- Dysentery
- Female
- Genes, Bacterial
- Hemolysin Proteins
- Mice
- Mutation
- Spirochaetales Infections
- Swine
- Swine Diseases
- Virulence