Caenorhabditis elegans is a model host for Listeria monocytogenes

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 1700-1701

  Thomsen, Line E ^a   Slutz, Sandra S ^b   Tan, Man Wah ^b   Ingmer, Hanne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; VIRUSES;

ACTIN-BASED INTRACELLULAR MOTILITY; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; WORM INTESTINE;

GENES;

ACTA PROTEIN; ACTIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACTERIAL DISEASE; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; NEMATODE;

ACTA GENE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL KILLING; CELL MOTILITY; FEEDING; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; INTESTINE; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; NEMATODIASIS; NONHUMAN;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTATION; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MAMMALIA; NEMATODA;

EID: 33144461893     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.72.2.1700-1701.2006     Document Type: Article

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