Natural competence promotes Helicobacter pylori chronic infection

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 209-215

  Dorer, Marion S ^a   Cohen, Ilana E ^a,b   Sessler, Tate H ^a   Fero, Jutta ^a   Salama, Nina R ^a  

^a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CAGY PROTEIN; DPRA PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADAPTATION; ALLELE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL SECRETION SYSTEM; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIUM COMPETENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MODEL; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HELICOBACTER INFECTION; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHRONIC DISEASE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; HELICOBACTER INFECTIONS; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MUTATION; STOMACH;

EID: 84871914093     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.01042-12     Document Type: Article

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