Article
Staphylococcus aureus genetic loci impacting growth and survival in multiple infection environments.
Molecular microbiology - 1 Oct 1998
Coulter S N, Schwan W R, Ng E Y, Langhorne M H, Ritchie H D, Westbrock-Wadman S, Hufnagle W O, Folger K R, Bayer A S, Stover C K
Abstract excerpt
The Gram-positive bacterium Staphylococcus aureus infects diverse tissues and causes a wide spectrum of diseases, suggesting that it possesses a repertoire of distinct molecular mechanisms promoting bacterial survival in disparate in vivo environments. Signature-tag transposon mutagenesis screeni...
Topics
- ATP-Binding Cassette Transporters
- Animals
- Bacteremia
- Bacterial Proteins
- Carrier Proteins
- Cell Division
- Disease Models, Animal
- Endocarditis
- Gene Library
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred BALB C