A bacterial siren song: Intimate interactions between Neisseria and neutrophils

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 178-190

  Criss, Alison K ^a   Seifert, H Steven ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; APOPTOSIS; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CELL TYPE; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INNATE IMMUNITY; MUCOSA; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; GONORRHEA; HUMANS; MENINGOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; MICROBIAL INTERACTIONS; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NEUTROPHILS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; NEISSERIA; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; SIREN;

EID: 84857191002     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: 17401534     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro2713     Document Type: Review

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