Recent molecular insights into rickettsial pathogenesis and immunity

Future Microbiology

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1265-1288

  Sahni, Sanjeev K ^a   Narra, Hema P ^a   Sahni, Abha ^a   Walker, David H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

Author keywords

endothelium; genomics; innate immunity; metabolomics; pathogenesis; plasmids; proteomics; Rickettsia; spotted fever; typhus

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; GAMMA INTERFERON INDUCIBLE PROTEIN 10; INDUCIBLE NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 1ALPHA; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE P38; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN 1; RANTES; STAT PROTEIN;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; CELL ADHESION; GENOMICS; HOST CELL; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INNATE IMMUNITY; INTRACELLULAR BACTERIUM; METABOLOMICS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PHYLOGENY; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN METHYLATION; PROTEOMICS; REVIEW; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIOSIS; TYPE I SECRETION SYSTEM; TYPE IV SECRETION SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; IMMUNITY; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA INFECTIONS;

EID: 84885009354     PISSN: 17460913     EISSN: 17460921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/fmb.13.102     Document Type: Review

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