Immune subversion and quorum-sensing shape the variation in infectious dose among bacterial pathogens

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Gama, João Alves ^a,b   Abby, Sophie S ^c,d   Vieira Silva, Sara ^c,d   Dionisio, Francisco ^a,b   Rocha, Eduardo P C ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTO GULBENKIAN DE CIÊNCIA   (Portugal)

^c INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^d CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL SECRETION SYSTEM; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CELL KILLING; GENE TRANSFER; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOME SIZE; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; IMMUNE SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTE; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUORUM SENSING; BACTERIUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; IMMUNE EVASION; IMMUNOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; IMMUNE EVASION; PHAGOCYTES; QUORUM SENSING; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 84860897139     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1002503     Document Type: Article

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