Environmental predators as models for bacterial pathogenesis: Minireview

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 563-575

  Hilbi, Hubert ^a   Weber, Stefan S ^a   Ragaz, Curdin ^a   Nyfeler, Yves ^a   Urwyler, Simon ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOEBA; ANIMAL; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DISEASE MODEL; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HUMAN; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY; PREDATION; SHORT SURVEY;

AMOEBA; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; HUMANS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HEXAPODA; LEGIONELLA; MAMMALIA; MYCOBACTERIUM; NEMATODA; PROTOZOA; PSEUDOMONAS; VIBRIO;

EID: 33846982243     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2007.01238.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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