Cytotoxin production in phytopathogenic and entomopathogenic Serratia marcescens

Revista Latinoamericana de Microbiologia

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 165-170

  Escobar, M M ^a   Carbonell, Gleize Villela ^a   Beriam, L O S ^a   Siqueira, W J ^b   Yano, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^b Biol Molec Fitoquimica do Inst A   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cell culture; Cytotoxins; Serratia marcescens; Virulence factors

Indexed keywords

CYTOTOXIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; CELL DEATH; CHO CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; ENTOMOPATHOGENY; HEP 2 CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LETTUCE; NONHUMAN; ONION; PLANT GROWTH; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; VERO CELL;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; CHO CELLS; CRICETINAE; CRICETULUS; CYTOTOXINS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; LETTUCE; MOTHS; NEUTRALIZATION TESTS; ONIONS; PLANT DISEASES; RABBITS; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; VERO CELLS;

ALLIUM CEPA; ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BULBUS; LACTUCA; MAMMALIA; SERRATIA MARCESCENS;

EID: 0042320791     PISSN: 01874640     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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