Similar requirements of a plant symbiont and a mammalian pathogen for prolonged intracellular survival

Science

Volumn 287, Issue 5462, 2000, Pages 2492-2493

  LeVier, K ^a   Phillips, R W ^b   Grippe, V K ^b   Roop II, R M ^b   Walker, G C ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER PROTEIN; GENE PRODUCT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BRUCELLA ABORTUS; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; MACROPHAGE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BRUCELLA ABORTUS; BRUCELLOSIS; CELLS, CULTURED; FEMALE; HYPERSENSITIVITY, DELAYED; LIVER; MACROPHAGES; MEDICAGO SATIVA; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; SPLEEN; SYMBIOSIS; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BRUCELLA; BRUCELLA MELITENSIS BIOVAR ABORTUS; MAMMALIA; NEGIBACTERIA; RHIZOBIUM; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0034737819     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.287.5462.2492     Document Type: Article

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