Infections with the chlamydia-like microorganism Simkania negevensis, a possible emerging pathogen

Microbes and Infection

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1013-1021

  Friedman, Maureen G ^a   Dvoskin, Bella ^a   Kahane, Simona ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Bacteriology; Communicable diseases, emerging; Disease transmission

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; BACITRACIN; BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; BETA LACTAM; CIPROFLOXACIN; CYCLOSERINE; CYTOKINE; DOXYCYCLINE; ERYTHROMYCIN; GAMMA INTERFERON; MINOCYCLINE; OFLOXACIN; PENICILLIN G; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; BACTERIUM; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CHLAMYDIA; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HOST CELL; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; MEMBRANE STRUCTURE; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ONSET AGE; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; REVIEW; SAMPLE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEROLOGY; SEROPREVALENCE; SIMKANIA NEGEVENSIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TAXONOMY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLAMYDIA; SIMKANIA NEGEVENSIS;

EID: 0041570014     PISSN: 12864579     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1286-4579(03)00188-6     Document Type: Review

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