Role of RpoS in virulence of pathogens

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 887-897

  Dong, Tao ^a   Schellhorn, Herb E ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SIGMA FACTOR RPOS;

BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL PLANT DISEASE; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BURKHOLDERIA; BURKHOLDERIA PLANTARII; BURKHOLDERIA PSEUDOMALLEI; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HOST RESISTANCE; HUMAN; INSECT DISEASE; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; LYME DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PECTOBACTERIUM CAROTOVORUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RALSTONIA SOLANACEARUM; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SERRATIA; SERRATIA ENTOMOPHILA; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; SHORT SURVEY; STRESS; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; XENORHABDUS NEMATOPHILA; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA;

BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; PROTEOBACTERIA; SIGMA FACTOR; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 77349109268     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00882-09     Document Type: Short Survey

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