Adhesion proteins of Mycoplasma pneumoniae

Frontiers in Bioscience

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 690-699

  Chaudhry, Rama ^a   Varshney, Avanish Kumar ^a   Malhotra, Pawan ^b  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR GENETIC ENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY ICGEB   (India)

Author keywords

Adhesin; Infection; Mycoplasma pneumoniae; Protein; Review

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; MYCOPLASMATALES;

EID: 34249804799     PISSN: 27686701     EISSN: 27686698     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2741/2093     Document Type: Article

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