Challenge of investigating biologically relevant functions of virulence factors in bacterial pathogens

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 355, Issue 1397, 2000, Pages 643-656

  Moxon, Richard ^a   Tang, Christoph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bacterial virulence; Genomics; Microbial infections; Pathogenesis

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DISEASE; PATHOGENICITY; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0034729335     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2000.0605     Document Type: Article

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