The search for unrecognized pathogens

Science

Volumn 284, Issue 5418, 1999, Pages 1308-1310

  Relman, David A ^a,b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VA PALO ALTO HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOTYPE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; PATHOGENESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; IMMUNITY; VIROLOGY; VIRUS DISEASES; VIRUSES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0033591293     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.284.5418.1308     Document Type: Review

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43. I thank J. Theriot (Stanford University) for a critical reading of this manuscript and K. Morrow (VA Palo Alto) for assistance with Fig. 1. D.A.R. is supported by grants from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at NIH, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.