Mycoplasmas: Sophisticated, Reemerging, and Burdened by Their Notoriety

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 21-32

  Baseman, Joel B ^a   Tully, Joseph G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIDS RELATED COMPLEX; ANIMAL; ARTHRITIS; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CROHN DISEASE; HISTORY; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; PATHOGENICITY; PERSIAN GULF SYNDROME; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; ANIMALS; ARTHRITIS; BACTERIAL ADHESION; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; CROHN DISEASE; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; IMMUNOLOGIC DEFICIENCY SYNDROMES; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA INFECTIONS; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; PERSIAN GULF SYNDROME;

EID: 0030628417     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid0301.970103     Document Type: Article

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