Molecular Mechanisms of Bacterial Virulence: Type III Secretion and Pathogenicity Islands

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 271-288

  Mecsas, Joan ^a,b,c   Strauss, Evelyn J ^a,c,d  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

CHROMOSOME; GENETICS; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PATHOGENICITY; PLASMID; REVIEW; SECRETION; TRANSPOSON; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHROMOSOMES; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; HUMANS; PLASMIDS; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0030253637     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid0204.960403     Document Type: Article

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