Roles of bacterial membrane vesicles

Archives of Microbiology

Volumn 197, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Avila Calderón, Eric Daniel ^a   Araiza Villanueva, Minerva Georgina ^a   Cancino Diaz, Juan Carlos ^a   López Villegas, Edgar Oliver ^a   Sriranganathan, Nammalwar ^b   Boyle, Stephen M ^b   Contreras Rodríguez, Araceli ^a  

^a INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO NACIONAL   (Mexico)

^b CENTER FOR MOLECULAR MEDICINE AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacteria; Gram negative; Gram positive; Outer membrane vesicles; Pathogens

Indexed keywords

VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANIMAL; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL WALL; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE INFECTION; HUMAN; MEMBRANE STRUCTURE; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL MEMBRANE STRUCTURES; CELL WALL; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 84922098925     PISSN: 03028933     EISSN: 1432072X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00203-014-1042-7     Document Type: Review

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