Host-pathogen interactions in streptococcal immune sequelae

Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology

Volumn 368, Issue , 2013, Pages 155-171

  Nitsche Schmitz, D Patric ^a   Chhatwal, Gursharan S ^a  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR INFECTION RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; COMPLEMENT FACTOR; GLYCERALDEHYDE 3 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; M PROTEIN; OCTAPEPTIDE; BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; CARRIER PROTEIN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; STREPTOCOCCAL M PROTEIN;

ALLERGIC GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RHEUMATIC FEVER; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS DYSGALACTIAE EQUISIMILIS; STREPTOCOCCUS EQUI ZOOEPIDEMICUS; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP C; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; ANIMAL; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; IMMUNOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; CARRIER PROTEINS; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; RHEUMATIC FEVER; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84892926517     PISSN: 0070217X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/82-2012-296     Document Type: Article

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