Chapter 1 Bacterial L-Forms

Advances in Applied Microbiology

Volumn 68, Issue , 2009, Pages 1-39

  Allan, E J ^a   Hoischen, C ^b   Gumpert, J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b FRITZ LIPMANN INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ANIMAL DISEASE; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL AGENT; CELL DIVISION; CELL ISOLATION; CHRONIC DISEASE; EUKARYOTE; GENE EXPRESSION SYSTEM; GENE MUTATION; IMMUNOMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTOPLAST; RECURRENT INFECTION; REVIEW; SPECIES CULTIVATION; SPHEROPLAST; ANIMAL; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM; CYTOLOGY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; L FORMS; PROTOPLASTS;

EID: 65449119581     PISSN: 00652164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0065-2164(09)01201-5     Document Type: Review

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