Adaptive Prediction As a Strategy in Microbial Infections

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2014, Pages

  Brunke, Sascha ^a,b   Hube, Bernhard ^a,b,c  

^a HANS KNÖLL INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b JENA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Germany)

^c FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GROWTH RATE AND GROWTH REGULATION; INFECTION; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; PLASMODIUM; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SIMULATION; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ANIMAL; BACTERIUM; EPITHELIUM CELL; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PREVALENCE;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ANIMALS; BACTERIA; EPITHELIAL CELLS; HUMANS; INFECTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREVALENCE;

EID: 84908321333     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1004356     Document Type: Article

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