Interaction of Yersinia with the Gut: Mechanisms of pathogenesis and immune evasion

Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology

Volumn 337, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 61-91

  Dube, Peter ^a  

^a Mays Cancer Center at UT Health San Antonio   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIL PROTEIN; INVASIN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRULENCE FACTOR; YADA PROTEIN;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL FLAGELLUM; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HOST RESISTANCE; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INNATE IMMUNITY; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT SUPPLY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; TYPE III SECRETION SYSTEM; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA; YERSINIA INFECTION; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS; ANIMAL; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; INTESTINE; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; VIRULENCE; YERSINIA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); YERSINIA; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ANIMALS; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, INNATE; INTESTINES; VIRULENCE; YERSINIA; YERSINIA INFECTIONS;

EID: 75649127651     PISSN: 0070217X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-01846-6_3     Document Type: Review

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