Pathogenicity islands and the evolution of bacterial pathogens

Infectious Agents and Disease

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-7

  Lee, Catherine A ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacterial virulence; Emerging pathogens; Horizontal transfer

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM; GENE TRANSFER; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EVOLUTION; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHENOTYPE; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0030045399     PISSN: 10562044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Short Survey

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