When a commensal becomes a pathogen

Sarcoidosis Vasculitis and Diffuse Lung Diseases

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 10-11

  Drake, Wonder Puryear ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE; MINOCYCLINE; RNA 16S;

ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; EDITORIAL; GRANULOMATOUS INFLAMMATION; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOMODULATION; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG LAVAGE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPIONIBACTERIUM; PROPIONIBACTERIUM ACNES; SARCOIDOSIS; SYMBIOSIS; VIRULENCE;

BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; DNA, BACTERIAL; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; PROPIONIBACTERIUM ACNES; SARCOIDOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 56349112810     PISSN: 11240490     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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