The highest priority: What microbial genomes are telling us about immunity

Veterinary Immunology and Immunopathology

Volumn 85, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 1-8

  Palmer, Guy H ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Genetic deletion; Immune evasion; Microbes; Reductive evolution

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL DISEASE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL IMMUNITY; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL MUTATION; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; CHLAMYDIA; EHRLICHIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DELETION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE FUNCTION; HOST; INFECTION CONTROL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MYCOPLASMA; NONHUMAN; RICKETTSIA PROWAZEKII; SHORT SURVEY; SPIROCHETE; VACCINATION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANAPLASMA; ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; EHRLICHIA; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HUMANS;

ANAPLASMATACEAE; ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLAMYDIAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MYCOPLASMATALES; RICKETTSIA;

EID: 0036176111     PISSN: 01652427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-2427(01)00415-9     Document Type: Short Survey

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