Molecular determinants of the pathogenesis of disease due to non-typable Haemophilus influenzae

FEMS Microbiology Reviews

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 99-129

  Rao, Venkatarama K ^a   Krasan, Graham P ^a   Hendrixson, David R ^a   Dawid, Suzanne ^a   St Geme III, Joseph W ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Disease; Haemophilus influenzae; Non typable; Pathogenesis

Indexed keywords

ADHESIN; CYTOKINE; HEME; HEMOGLOBIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IRON; IRON BINDING PROTEIN; VACCINE;

BACTERIAL INFECTION; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; PATHOGENESIS; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; REVIEW;

ADHESINS, BACTERIAL; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; HAEMOPHILUS INFECTIONS; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HEME; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, MUCOSAL; IRON; LARYNGEAL MUCOSA; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MUCOCILIARY CLEARANCE; NASAL MUCOSA; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES;

EID: 0032897059     PISSN: 01686445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-6445(98)00039-4     Document Type: Review

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