What's in a word: The use, misuse, and abuse of the word "persistence" in Chlamydia biology

Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

Volumn 5, Issue MAR, 2014, Pages

  Bavoil, Patrik M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND DENTAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Aberrant body; Chlamydia; Commensalism; Persistence; Recurrence

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; INDOLEAMINE 2, 3 DIOXYGENASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CYTOKINE;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ARTICLE; ASYMPTOMATIC INFECTION; CELL EXPANSION; CHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; CHLAMYDOPHILA PSITTACI; DOWN REGULATION; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INTESTINE FLORA; MICROBIAL COLONIZATION; NONHUMAN; RECURRENT DISEASE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GROWTH; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EXPOSURE; HOST CELL; IMAGING; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; PERSISTENT INFECTION; PHYLOGENY; RECURRENCE RISK; STIMULUS; STRESS; ABERRANT BODY; ANIMAL; BIRD; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMMENSALISM; HETEROZYGOTE; MICROBIOLOGY; NOMENCLATURE; PERSISTENCE; PHYSIOLOGY;

ABERRANT BODY; CHLAMYDIA; COMMENSALISM; PERSISTENCE; RECURRENCE;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; CARRIER STATE; CHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHRONIC DISEASE; HUMANS; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 84898731461     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22352988     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fcimb.2014.00027     Document Type: Article

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