Weapons of mass retraction

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 878-888

  Burrows, Lori L ^a  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL TRANSLOCATION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BACTERIUM PILUS; CELL MOTILITY; CHEMOTAXIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HYDROLYSIS; NEISSERIA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECRETION; PSEUDOMONAS; SHORT SURVEY; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA;

EID: 23744504605     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2005.04703.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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