Ehrlichia subversion of host innate responses

Current Opinion in Microbiology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 95-101

  Rikihisa, Yasuko ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; PEPTIDOGLYCAN;

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; APOPTOSIS; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL WALL; DOWN REGULATION; EHRLICHIA CHAFFEENSIS; INNATE IMMUNITY; LYSOSOME; REVIEW;

ANAPLASMA; ANAPLASMOSIS; APOPTOSIS; EHRLICHIA CHAFFEENSIS; EHRLICHIOSIS; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; LEUKOCYTES; LYSOSOMES; NADPH OXIDASE; PHAGOCYTOSIS;

ANAPLASMA; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; EHRLICHIA; EHRLICHIA CHAFFEENSIS; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 31844445394     PISSN: 13695274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mib.2005.12.003     Document Type: Review

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