Breathing life into pathogens: The influence of oxygen on bacterial virulence and host responses in the gastrointestinal tract

Cellular Microbiology

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 171-176

  Marteyn, Benoit ^a   Scorza, Francesco Berlanda ^b   Sansonetti, Philippe J ^a   Tang, Christoph ^b  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; ENTEROHEMORRHAGIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN SENSING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; IMMUNE EVASION; OXYGEN; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 78651440997     PISSN: 14625814     EISSN: 14625822     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-5822.2010.01549.x     Document Type: Review

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