Changes in Helicobacter pylori ultrastructure and antigens during conversion from the bacillary to the coccoid form

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 64, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 2331-2335

  Benaïssa, Mohammed ^a,b   Babin, Philippe ^a   Quellard, Nathalie ^a   Pezennec, Léon ^a   Cenatiempo, Yves ^b   Fauchère, Jean Louis ^a  

^a POITIERS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^b IBMIG Institut de Biologie Moleculaire et dIngenierie Genetique   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MEMBRANE STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0030013043     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.64.6.2331-2335.1996     Document Type: Article

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