Actin-dependent movement of bacterial pathogens

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 91-101

  Stevens, Joanne M ^a   Galyov, Edouard E ^a   Stevens, Mark P ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN;

BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BURKHOLDERIA; BURKHOLDERIA PSEUDOMALLEI; CELL SURFACE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CYTOSOL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HOST CELL; HOST SUSCEPTIBILITY; IMMUNOSURVEILLANCE; LISTERIA; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM MARINUM; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REVIEW; RICKETTSIA; SHIGELLA;

ACTINS; BURKHOLDERIA PSEUDOMALLEI; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MYCOBACTERIUM MARINUM; RICKETTSIA CONORII; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BURKHOLDERIA; BURKHOLDERIA PSEUDOMALLEI; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LISTERIA; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM MARINUM; RICKETTSIA; SHIGELLA;

EID: 31544439411     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro1320     Document Type: Review

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