Enterotoxins in Aeromonas-associated gastroenteritis

Microbes and Infection

Volumn 1, Issue 13, 1999, Pages 1129-1137

  Chopra, Ashok K ^a   Houston, Clifford W ^a  

^a University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Aerolysin; Aeromonas; Cytotonic enterotoxin; Cytotoxic enterotoxin; Pathogenic mechanisms

Indexed keywords

ENTEROTOXIN; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

AEROMONAS HYDROPHILA; AEROMONAS PUNCTATA; AEROMONAS SOBRIA; AEROMONAS VERONII; ANIMAL MODEL; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CYTOTOXICITY; GASTROENTERITIS; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

AEROMONAS; AEROMONAS HYDROPHILA; AEROMONAS PUNCTATA; AEROMONAS SOBRIA; AEROMONAS VERONII; ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0032727120     PISSN: 12864579     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1286-4579(99)00202-6     Document Type: Review

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