Accidental virulence, cryptic pathogenesis, martians, lost hosts, and the pathogenicity of environmental microbes

Eukaryotic Cell

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 2169-2174

  Casadevall, Arturo ^a   Pirofski, Liise Anne ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; CYTOLOGY; ENVIRONMENT; EUKARYOTIC CELL; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; INFECTION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PHENOTYPE; SHORT SURVEY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; ENVIRONMENT; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; INFECTION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHENOTYPE; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; VIRULENCE;

EID: 37549071906     PISSN: 15359778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/EC.00308-07     Document Type: Short Survey

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