Virulence or niche factors: What's in a name?

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 194, Issue 21, 2012, Pages 5725-5727

  Hill, Colin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROBIOTIC AGENT; TRACE ELEMENT; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ACCURACY; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BIFIDOBACTERIUM BREVE; BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY; COMMENSAL; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; LACTOBACILLUS RHAMNOSUS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MACRONUTRIENT; MICROENVIRONMENT; MICROFLORA; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOGENICITY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; STOMACH; STOMACH JUICE; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HUMANS; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 84868626643     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00980-12     Document Type: Short Survey

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