Shared themes of antigenic variation and virulence in bacterial, protozoal, and fungal infections

Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 281-293

  Deitsch, Kirk W ^a   Richard Moxon, E ^b   Wellems, Thomas E ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; FUNGUS ANTIGEN;

ANTIGENIC VARIATION; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE CONVERSION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; MYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PHENOTYPE; POINT MUTATION; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; REVIEW;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; PROTOZOA;

EID: 2642654225     PISSN: 10922172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/.61.3.281-293.1997     Document Type: Review

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