| Literature DB >> 3881591 |
P G Peerbooms, A M Verweij, D M MacLaren.
Abstract
A group of faecal isolates of Proteus vulgaris and P. mirabilis was studied for the presence of possible virulence factors such as growth rates in urine and broth, haemolysin production, hydrophobicity, sensitivity to the bactericidal activity of human serum and cell invasiveness. Differences were found in haemolysin production, cell invasiveness and experimental virulence in a mouse model. These differences might explain why P. mirabilis is much more common in human urinary-tract infections than P. vulgaris.Entities:
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Year: 1985 PMID： 3881591 DOI： 10.1099/00222615-19-1-55
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Med Microbiol ISSN： 0022-2615 Impact factor: 2.472