I never met a microbe I didn't like

Nature Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1053-1057

  Falkow, Stanley ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BACTERIAL DNA; ENTEROTOXIN; PLASMID DNA; RECOMBINANT DNA;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; APOPTOSIS; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIARRHEA; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; DNA MODIFICATION; DNA TRANSPOSITION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE LOCUS; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MICROORGANISM; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; SALMONELLA; SHIGELLA;

HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; MICROBIOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 53549119138     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: 1546170X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nm1008-1053     Document Type: Note

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