Analyzing microbial disease at high resolution: Following the fate of the bacterium during infection

Current Opinion in Microbiology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 23-27

  Crimmins, Gregory T ^a,b   Isberg, Ralph R ^a,b  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENT DYE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CLONE; DNA BARCODING; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; FLUORESCENCE DILUTION; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HYBRIDIZATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; REVIEW; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; TRANSPOSON; TRANSPOSON SITE HYBRIDIZATION; WILD TYPE; WILD TYPE ISOGENIC TAGGED STRAIN; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; DNA BARCODING, TAXONOMIC; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; STAINING AND LABELING;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84856082374     PISSN: 13695274     EISSN: 18790364     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mib.2011.11.005     Document Type: Review

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