Listeria monocytogenes: A multifaceted model

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 423-434

  Hamon, Mélanie ^a,b,c   Bierne, Hélène ^a,b,c   Cossart, Pascale ^a,b,c  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LISTERIOLYSIN; SCATTER FACTOR; UVOMORULIN; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ACTIN POLYMERIZATION; ADAPTATION; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; CELL INVASION; CELL JUNCTION; CELL MOTILITY; ENDOCYTOSIS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; IN VIVO STUDY; LIFE CYCLE; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW;

ACTINS; ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ENDOCYTOSIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; HUMANS; INTERCELLULAR JUNCTIONS; LISTERIA INFECTIONS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MAMMALIA;

EID: 33646844623     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro1413     Document Type: Review

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