Understanding the pneumococcus: Transmission and evolution

Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

Volumn 4, Issue MAR, 2013, Pages

  Donkor, Eric S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GHANA   (Ghana)

Author keywords

Carriage; Evolution; Pneumococcus; Recombination; Transmission

Indexed keywords

BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL ARTHRITIS; BACTERIAL CAPSULE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; CONJUNCTIVITIS; ENDOMETRITIS; EVOLUTION; FEVER; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HEADACHE; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; NASOPHARYNX; NONHUMAN; OSTEOMYELITIS; OTITIS MEDIA; PERITONITIS; PHOTOPHOBIA; PHYLOGENY; PNEUMOCOCCAL MENINGITIS; RIGIDITY; RISK FACTOR; SEPTICEMIA; SHORT SURVEY; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRACHEOBRONCHITIS; CARRIAGE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GENETICS; HETEROZYGOTE; MICROBIOLOGY; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTION; RECOMBINATION; REVIEW; TRANSMISSION;

CARRIAGE; EVOLUTION; PNEUMOCOCCUS; RECOMBINATION; TRANSMISSION;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CARRIER STATE; HUMANS; NASOPHARYNX; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RISK FACTORS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 84890443871     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22352988     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fcimb.2013.00007     Document Type: Short Survey

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