The damage-response framework of microbial pathogenesis

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 17-24

  Casadevall, Arturo ^a   Pirofski, Liise Anne ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; BACTERIUM; FUNGUS; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; INFECTION; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCOSIS; PARASITE; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; TIME; VIRAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; VIROLOGY; VIRULENCE; VIRUS;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGY; FUNGI; HUMANS; INFECTION; MYCOSES; PARASITES; TIME FACTORS; VIRAL PHYSIOLOGY; VIRULENCE; VIRUSES;

EID: 1842671656     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: 17401534     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro732     Document Type: Article

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