Problems and priorities for controlling opportunistic pathogens with new antimicrobial strategies; An overview of current literature

Zentralblatt fur Bakteriologie

Volumn 283, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 431-465

  Araneo, B A ^a   Cebra, J J ^a   Beuth, J ^a   Fuller, R ^a   Heidt, P J ^a   Midvedt, T ^a,b   Nord, C E ^a   Nieuwenhuis, P ^a   Manson, W L ^a   Pulverer, G ^a   Rusch, V C ^a   Tanaka, R ^a   Van Der Waaij, D ^a   Walker, R I ^a   Wells, C L ^a  

^a Karolinska Institute ^*  (Netherlands)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; IMMUNOLOGICAL ADJUVANT;

HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; INTESTINE; MACROPHAGE; MICROBIOLOGY; NUTRITION; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; PASSIVE IMMUNIZATION; REVIEW;

ADJUVANTS, IMMUNOLOGIC; ANTIBODIES; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION, PASSIVE; INTESTINES; MACROPHAGES; NUTRITION PHYSIOLOGY; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS;

EID: 0030119232     PISSN: 09348840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0934-8840(96)80122-8     Document Type: Review

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