Hypervirulence and pathogen fitness

Trends in Microbiology

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 105-108

  Foreman Wykert, Amy K ^a   Miller, Jeff F ^a   Seligman, Stephen J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C3H; PROTOZOA; PROTOZOAN INFECTIONS; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RATS; RATS, INBRED BN; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PROTOZOA;

EID: 0037340894     PISSN: 0966842X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0966-842X(03)00007-6     Document Type: Short Survey

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