Host-pathogen interactions: Basic concepts of microbial commensalism, colonization, infection, and disease

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 68, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 6511-6518

  Casadevall, Arturo ^a,b   Pirofski, Liise Anne ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Department of Medicine ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE TYPE B; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; INFECTION; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SHORT SURVEY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

ANIMALS; CARRIER STATE; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; HUMANS; INFECTION; TERMINOLOGY; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0034444550     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.68.12.6511-6518.2000     Document Type: Short Survey

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