Emerging chlamydial infections

Critical Reviews in Microbiology

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 75-106

  Corsaro, Daniele ^a   Venditti, Danielle ^b  

^a CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE LUXEMBOURG   (Luxembourg)

^b CHU NANCY BRABOIS   (France)

Author keywords

Amoeba; Arthropod Endosymbiont; Chlamydia; Chlamydial Infection; Chlamydiales; Chlamydophila; Epitheliocystis; Fritschea; Parachlamydia; Rhabdochlamydia; Simkania; Waddlia

Indexed keywords

OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ABORTION; ACANTHAMOEBA; ARTHROPOD; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BIRD DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAT DISEASE; CHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDIA ABORTUS; CHLAMYDIA PECORUM; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; CHLAMYDOPHILA; CHLAMYDOPHILA FELIS; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; CHLAMYDOPHILA PSITTACI; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; ENCEPHALITIS; EYE INFECTION; FAUNA; FISH DISEASE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; MENINGITIS; NONHUMAN; OPERON; ORNITHOSIS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; REVIEW; RICKETTSIA; SIMKANIA NEGEVENSIS; UROGENITAL TRACT INFECTION; WADDLIA CHONDROPHILA;

ABORTION, SPONTANEOUS; ANIMALS; ARTHROPODS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDIALES; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; EYE INFECTIONS; FEMALE UROGENITAL DISEASES; FISHES; HUMANS; MALE UROGENITAL DISEASES; PHYLOGENY; REPTILES; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SYMBIOSIS;

ACANTHAMOEBA; ARTHROPODA; AVES; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BOVINAE; CHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIAE; CHLAMYDIALES; CHLAMYDOPHILA; CHLAMYDOPHILA FELIS; CHLAMYDOPHILA PECORUM; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; CHLAMYDOPHILA PSITTACI; FELIS; FELIS CATUS; FRITSCHEA; PARACHLAMYDIA; PARACHLAMYDIA ACANTHAMOEBAE; PISCES; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIALES; SIMKANIA; SIMKANIA NEGEVENSIS; VERTEBRATA; WADDLIA; WADDLIA CHONDROPHILA;

EID: 2542500441     PISSN: 1040841X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10408410490435106     Document Type: Review

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