Is Brucella an enteric pathogen?

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 250-

  Gorvel, Jean Pierre ^a   Moreno, Edgardo ^b   Moriyón, Ignacio ^c  

^a CENTRE D IMMUNOLOGIE DE MARSEILLE LUMINY   (France)

^b Escuela de Medicina Veterinaria   (Costa Rica)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 2;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; BACTERIAL REPRODUCTION; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIAL TRANSLOCATION; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BRUCELLA; BRUCELLOSIS; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; DAIRY PRODUCT; FEVER; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NOTE; OROPHARYNX; PATHOGENICITY ISLAND; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALMONELLA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES INVASION; ANIMAL; INTESTINE MUCOSA; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY; SALMONELLA TYPHI;

BRUCELLA;

ANIMALS; BRUCELLA; BRUCELLOSIS; HUMANS; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; SALMONELLA TYPHI;

EID: 60749094966     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro2012-c1     Document Type: Note

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