Adhesins of Bartonella spp.

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 715, Issue , 2011, Pages 51-70

  O'Rourke, Fiona ^a   Schmidgen, Thomas ^a   Kaiser, Patrick O ^a   Linke, Dirk ^b   Kempf, Volkhard A J ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; HEMAGGLUTININ; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN BADA; PROTEIN VOMPS; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRB D4 T4SS PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACILLARY ANGIOMATOSIS; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL SECRETION SYSTEM; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BARTONELLA; BARTONELLA HENSELAE; BARTONELLA QUINTANA; CARRION DISEASE; CAT SCRATCH DISEASE; CELL ADHESION; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; ERYTHROCYTE; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HOST CELL; HOST RANGE; NONHUMAN; PELIOSIS HEPATIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; TRENCH FEVER;

ADHESINS, BACTERIAL; ANGIOMATOSIS, BACILLARY; ANIMALS; BARTONELLA; BARTONELLA INFECTIONS; CAT-SCRATCH DISEASE; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; PELIOSIS HEPATIS; TRENCH FEVER; VIRULENCE;

BARTONELLA; BARTONELLA HENSELAE; BARTONELLA QUINTANA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 79960131069     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-0940-9_4     Document Type: Article

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