What is a pathogen?

Annals of Medicine

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 2-4

  Casadevall, Arturo ^a   Pirofski, Liise Anne ^a  

^a Department of Medicine ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Commensal; Host; Opportunistic; Pathogen; Pathogenicity; Virulence

Indexed keywords

ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; CAMPYLOBACTER; CANDIDA ALBICANS; COMMENSALISM; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HISTOPLASMA CAPSULATUM; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOGENICITY; PNEUMOCYSTIS CARINII; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHIGELLA; SHORT SURVEY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGY; FUNGI; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; HUMANS; MYCOSES; PROTOZOA; PROTOZOAN INFECTIONS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0036234053     PISSN: 07853890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/078538902317338580     Document Type: Short Survey

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