Common molecular mechanisms of symbiosis and pathogenesis

Trends in Microbiology

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 226-231

  Hentschel, Ute ^a   Steinert, Michael ^a   Hacker, Jörg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CELL COMMUNICATION; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOST CELL; HOST SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGY; SYMBIOSIS; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0034193079     PISSN: 0966842X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0966-842X(00)01758-3     Document Type: Review

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