Caenorhabditis elegans as a model host for Staphylococcus aureus pathogenesis

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 2208-2217

  Sifri, Costi D ^a   Begun, Jakob ^a   Ausubel, Frederick M ^a,b   Calderwood, Stephen B ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; HEMOLYSIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; SERINE PROTEINASE; SIGMA FACTOR; SMAD ANCHOR FOR RECEPTOR ACTIVATION; SYNAPTOPHYSIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESP 2 GENE; ESP 8 GENE; GENE; GENE FUNCTION; NONHUMAN; NSY 1 GENE; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOGENICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEK 1 GENE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; INTESTINES; MUTATION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0345268668     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.71.4.2208-2217.2003     Document Type: Article

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