Blocking bacterial enterotoxins

Nature Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 257-258

  Donnelly, John J ^a   Rappuoli, Rino ^a  

^a NOVARTIS PHARMA AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BACTERIAL VACCINE; CARBOHYDRATE; CERAMIDE; GALACTOSYLTRANSFERASE; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; OLIGOMER; PROTEIN; RECEPTOR; RIBOSOME RNA; SILICON DIOXIDE; SYNSORB PK; THIOGLYCOLIC ACID; TRISACCHARIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VEROTOXIN;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE; HEMOLYTIC UREMIC SYNDROME; HEMORRHAGIC COLITIS; HUMAN; INTESTINE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR BINDING; SHIGELLA DYSENTERIAE; SHORT SURVEY;

BACTERIAL TOXINS; CARBOHYDRATE SEQUENCE; DYSENTERY, BACILLARY; ENTEROTOXINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SHIGA TOXINS; SHIGELLA DYSENTERIAE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; SHIGELLA DYSENTERIAE;

EID: 0034021434     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/73095     Document Type: Short Survey

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