Bartonella and Brucella-weapons and strategies for stealth attack

Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Ben Tekaya, Houchaima ^a   Gorvel, Jean Pierre ^b,c,d   Dehio, Christoph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b CENTRE D IMMUNOLOGIE DE MARSEILLE LUMINY   (France)

^c INSERM   (France)

^d CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BARTONELLA; BARTONELLOSIS; BRUCELLA; BRUCELLOSIS; CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; INNATE IMMUNITY; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

ANIMALS; BARTONELLA; BARTONELLA INFECTIONS; BRUCELLA; BRUCELLOSIS; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, INNATE; INSECT VECTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 84881080565     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21571422     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/cshperspect.a010231     Document Type: Article

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