Mechanisms of meningococcal colonisation

Trends in Microbiology

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 456-463

  Trivedi, Kaushali ^a   Tang, Christoph M ^a   Exley, Rachel M ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESIN; ALPHA DEFENSIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BETA 2 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; BETA ARRESTIN; BINDING PROTEIN; CD44V ANTIGEN; CD44V3 ANTIGEN; FACTOR H BINDING PROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; INDUCIBLE NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; INTERLEUKIN 6; MEMBRANE COFACTOR PROTEIN; NITRIC OXIDE REDUCTASE; PROTEIN CDC42; PROTEIN OPA; PROTEIN OPC; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BACTERIUM PILUS; BIOFILM; CELL JUNCTION; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HRPA GENE; HRPB GENE; INNATE IMMUNITY; MENINGOCOCCEMIA; NASOPHARYNX; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; OPAA GENE; OPAJ GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; MENINGITIS, MENINGOCOCCAL; NASOPHARYNX; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS;

EID: 80052139384     PISSN: 0966842X     EISSN: 18784380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2011.06.006     Document Type: Review

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