Anthrax delivers a lethal blow to host immunity

Nature Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 996-997

  Starnbach, Michael N ^a   Collier, R John ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHRAX TOXIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE KINASE; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANTHRAX; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INACTIVATION; IMMUNITY; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY;

ANIMALS; ANTHRAX; ANTHRAX VACCINES; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; DENDRITIC CELLS; HUMANS; IMMUNITY; IMMUNOLOGIC MEMORY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

ANTHRAX; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0042967621     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nm0803-996     Document Type: Short Survey

References (3)

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