Characterization of mediators of microbial virulence and innate immunity using the Caenorhabditis elegans host-pathogen model

Cellular Microbiology

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 435-444

  Alegado, Rosanna A ^a   Campbell, Marianne C ^a   Chen, Will C ^a   Slutz, Sandra S ^a   Tan, Man Wah ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL TOXIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; SYNAPTOPHYSIN;

ANALYTIC METHOD; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL INVASION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HOST RESISTANCE; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REGULATOR GENE; SALMONELLA; SHORT SURVEY; VIRULENCE; WORM INFECTION;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; PROTEINS; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; MAMMALIA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SALMONELLA;

EID: 0038725947     PISSN: 14625814     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1462-5822.2003.00287.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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