Incoming pathogens team up with harmless 'resident' bacteria

Trends in Microbiology

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 160-164

  Venturi, Vittorio ^a   Silva, Daniel Passos da ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR GENETIC ENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bacteria; Commensal bacteria; Interspecies; Signaling

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL TOXIN; INTERLEUKIN 10; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; N ACYLHOMOSERINE LACTONE; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 4;

AGGREGATIBACTER ACTINOMYCETEMCOMITANS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIUM; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ERWINIA; ERWINIA TOLETANA; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INSECT; INTESTINE FLORA; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; LUNG INFECTION; MOUSE MAMMARY TUMOR ONCOVIRUS; NONHUMAN; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; PERIODONTITIS; PLANT; POLIOMYELITIS VIRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; QUORUM SENSING; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS GORDONII;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; HUMANS; MICROBIAL INTERACTIONS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84859268174     PISSN: 0966842X     EISSN: 18784380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2012.02.003     Document Type: Review

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