Symbionts and pathogens: What is the difference?

Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology

Volumn 358, Issue , 2013, Pages 215-243

  Pérez Brocal, Vicente ^a   Latorre, Amparo ^b   Moya, Andrés ^c  

^a Centro Superior de Investigacion en Salud Publica CSISP   (Spain)

^b CIBER EPIDEMIOLOGÍA Y SALUD PÚBLICA CIBERESP   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BUCHNERA APHIDICOLA; CELL INTERACTION; CIMEX; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; COMMENSALISM; CRUSTACEA; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; ENDOSYMBIONT; GENOME SIZE; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INNATE IMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PARASITISM; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDONOCARDIACEAE; SYMBIONT; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; WOLBACHIA; ANIMAL; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; BACTERIUM; HUMAN; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; REVIEW; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; SYMBIOSIS;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84880149497     PISSN: 0070217X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/82_2011_190     Document Type: Article

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