Bartonella bacilliformis: Dangerous pathogen slowly emerging from deep background

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 144, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-11

  Ihler, Garret M ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Bartonella bacilliformis; Carrion's disease; Oroya fever; Verruga peruana

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL INFECTION; BARTONELLACEAE; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; ERYTHROCYTE; FLY; HEMANGIOMATOSIS; HUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PERU; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RHIZOBIUM;

AGROBACTERIUM; AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BARTONELLA; BARTONELLA BACILLIFORMIS; BARTONELLACEAE; MAMMALIA; PHLEBOTOMINAE; RHIZOBIUM; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

EID: 0030588105     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-1097(96)00307-2     Document Type: Short Survey

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