Virulence and immunomodulatory roles of bacterial outer membrane vesicles

Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 81-94

  Ellis, Terri N ^a   Kuehn, Meta J ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDOTOXIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI ENTEROTOXIN; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BIOFILM; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOMODULATION; INNATE IMMUNITY; MEMBRANE VESICLE; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANIMALS; CELL MEMBRANE; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; IMMUNOMODULATION; TRANSPORT VESICLES; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 77749309281     PISSN: 10922172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MMBR.00031-09     Document Type: Review

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