Tackling both sides of the host-pathogen equation with Caenorhabditis elegans

Microbes and Infection

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 247-256

  Ewbank, Jonathan J ^a  

^a CENTRE D IMMUNOLOGIE DE MARSEILLE LUMINY   (France)

Author keywords

Immunity, natural; Models, genetic; Virulence

Indexed keywords

ANTINEMATODAL AGENT; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BURKHOLDERIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DISEASE MODEL; GROWTH RATE; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; IMMUNITY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TEMPERATURE; WORM;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENES, HELMINTH; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; HUMANS; VIRULENCE;

CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 0036185610     PISSN: 12864579     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1286-4579(01)01531-3     Document Type: Review

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