Ecological fitness, genomic islands and bacterial pathogenicity

EMBO Reports

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 376-381

  Hacker, Jörg ^a   Carniel, Elisabeth ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; ECOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTE; EVOLUTION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE TRANSFER; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HOST; KLEBSIELLA; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; MICROBIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOGENICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; RHIZOBIUM; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SYMBIOSIS; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; YERSINIA;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; KLEBSIELLA; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; RHIZOBIUM; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; YERSINIA;

EID: 0034980876     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/embo-reports/kve097     Document Type: Article

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