Recent progress in understanding Bartonella-induced vascular proliferation

Current Opinion in Microbiology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 61-65

  Dehio, Christoph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; VASCULOTROPIN;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BARTONELLA; CELL INVASION; CELL PROLIFERATION; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFLAMMATION; MACROPHAGE; MONOCYTE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARACRINE SIGNALING; PATHOGENESIS; PROTEIN SECRETION; REVIEW;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BARTONELLA;

EID: 0037327719     PISSN: 13695274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1369-5274(03)00006-7     Document Type: Review

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