Bacteriophages and pathogenicity: more than just providing a toxin?

Microbes and Infection

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1365-1371

  Tinsley, Colin R ^a   Bille, Emmanuelle ^b   Nassif, Xavier ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

Bacteriophage; Evolution; Genetics; Neisseria meningitidis; Pathogenesis

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL TOXIN; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIUM; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC EPIDEMIOLOGY; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; MENINGOCOCCOSIS; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 33744801394     PISSN: 12864579     EISSN: 1769714X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.micinf.2005.12.013     Document Type: Short Survey

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