Uniquely insidious: Yersinia pestis biofilms

Trends in Microbiology

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 158-164

  Darby, Creg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GUANOSINE PHOSPHATE; N ACETYLGLUCOSAMINE; PROTEIN; PROTEIN HMSP; PROTEIN HMST; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BIOFILM; BUBONIC PLAGUE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAULOBACTER CRESCENTUS; FLY; GENE DELETION; GENE FUNCTION; GLUCONOBACTER; GLUCONOBACTER XYLINUM; INTESTINE; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PLAGUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SANITATION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; YERSINIA PESTIS; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOFILMS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; FLEAS; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; PLAGUE; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL; YERSINIA PESTIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; HEXAPODA; SIPHONAPTERA (FLEAS); YERSINIA PESTIS;

EID: 41549152828     PISSN: 0966842X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2008.01.005     Document Type: Review

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