The brucellae and their success as pathogens

Critical Reviews in Microbiology

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 325-331

  Guerra, Humberto ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE MEDICINA TROPICAL ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT   (Peru)

Author keywords

Alpha 2 Proteobacteria; Brucella; Control; Privileged Intracellular Niche; Zoonosis

Indexed keywords

BRUCELLA VACCINE;

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIOLOGY; BRUCELLA; BRUCELLA ABORTUS; BRUCELLOSIS; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; EVOLUTION; GENOMICS; HUMAN; INFECTION; INFECTION CONTROL; INNATE IMMUNITY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MONOCYTE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PHAGOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; VACCINATION;

ANIMALS; BRUCELLA; BRUCELLACEAE; BRUCELLOSIS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS;

ALPHA-2 PROTEOBACTERIA; ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ANIMALIA; BRUCELLA; CANIDAE; CETACEA; MAMMALIA; NEGIBACTERIA; PINNIPEDIA; RODENTIA; UNGULATA;

EID: 36349001841     PISSN: 1040841X     EISSN: 15497828     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10408410701647644     Document Type: Article

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