Surviving innate immunity [1]

Trends in Microbiology

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 358-359

  Nizet, Victor ^a   Gallo, Richard L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CATIONIC ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDE; PEPTIDE DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ABSCESS; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL IMMUNITY; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; EPITHELIUM CELL; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HUMAN; KERATINOCYTE; LETTER; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALMONELLA; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; WOUND INFECTION;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CELL WALL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, NATURAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; SALMONELLA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 0036684712     PISSN: 0966842X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0966-842X(02)02406-X     Document Type: Letter

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