The many and varied niches occupied by Yersinia pestis as an arthropod-vectored zoonotic pathogen

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, International Journal of General and Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 171-177

  Oyston, Petra C F ^a   Isherwood, Karen E ^a  

^a DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Flea; Macrophage; Plague; Virulence; Yersinia pestis

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CCR5;

LIFE CYCLE; LIFE HISTORY; PATHOGEN;

ANIMAL DISEASE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BIOFILM; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; FLEA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; LIFE CYCLE; MACROPHAGE FUNCTION; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VECTOR; PATHOGENESIS; PLAGUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEPTICEMIA; YERSINIA PESTIS; ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; DISEASE CARRIER; MACROPHAGE; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; VIRULENCE;

ARTHROPODA; MAMMALIA; SIPHONAPTERA (FLEAS); YERSINIA PESTIS;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; FLEAS; INSECT VECTORS; MACROPHAGES; PLAGUE; VIRULENCE; YERSINIA PESTIS;

EID: 24944523399     PISSN: 00036072     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10482-004-4619-3     Document Type: Review

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