Optimizing the balance between host and environmental survival skills: Lessons learned from Listeria monocytogenes

Future Microbiology

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 839-852

  Xayarath, Bobbi ^a   Freitag, Nancy E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

environmental pathogen; GASP; intracellular pathogen; PrfA

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CELL INVASION; CELL SURVIVAL; DNA BINDING; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIOSIS; MAMMAL CELL; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PRFA GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIOSIS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PEPTIDE TERMINATION FACTORS; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MAMMALIA;

EID: 84864359154     PISSN: 17460913     EISSN: 17460921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/fmb.12.57     Document Type: Review

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