Dissecting the immune response to the entomopathogen Photorhabdus

Trends in Microbiology

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 552-560

  Eleftherianos, Ioannis ^a   ffrench Constant, Richard H ^b   Clarke, David J ^c   Dowling, Andrea J ^b   Reynolds, Stuart E ^d  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^d University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXIDOREDUCTASE; PROPHENOL OXIDASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BLOOD CELL; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENTOMOPATHOGENIC BACTERIUM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INTESTINE FLORA; LEPIDOPTERA; LIFE CYCLE; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VECTOR; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PHOTORHABDUS; PHOTORHABDUS ASYMBIOTICA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TYPE III SECRETION SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; IMMUNE EVASION; INSECTS; NEMATODA; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PHOTORHABDUS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HEXAPODA; MANDUCA; NEMATODA; PHOTORHABDUS;

EID: 78649326176     PISSN: 0966842X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2010.09.006     Document Type: Review

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