Connection of toxin-antitoxin modules to inoculation eschar and arthropod vertical transmission in Rickettsiales

Comparative Immunology, Microbiology and Infectious Diseases

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 199-209

  Socolovschi, Cristina ^a   Audoly, Gilles ^a   Raoult, Didier ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

Inoculation eschar; Rickettsiae; Ticks; Toxin antitoxin; Vertical transmission

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INTRACELLULAR BACTERIUM; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RICKETTSIALES; TOXIN ANTITOXIN SYSTEM; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; ANTITOXINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GUINEA PIGS; HUMANS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA INFECTIONS;

ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA; IXODIDA; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIACEAE; RICKETTSIALES;

EID: 84875235726     PISSN: 01479571     EISSN: 18781667     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cimid.2013.01.001     Document Type: Article

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