Bacterial virulence: Can we draw the line?

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 201, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 1-7

  Wassenaar, Trudy M ^a,b   Gaastra, Wim ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Molec Microbiol/Genom Consultants   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bacterial virulence; Comparative genomics; Standardization; Virulence gene nomenclature

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; DATA BASE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; STANDARDIZATION;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGY; GENES, BACTERIAL; TERMINOLOGY; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0035838557     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(01)00241-5     Document Type: Short Survey

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