Through the wall: Extracellular vesicles in Gram-positive bacteria, mycobacteria and fungi

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 13, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 620-630

  Brown, Lisa ^a   Wolf, Julie M ^b   Prados Rosales, Rafael ^a   Casadevall, Arturo ^c  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b School of Public Health ^*  (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENZYME; LIPOPROTEIN; NUCLEIC ACID; TOXIN;

CELL DEATH; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; EXOSOME; FUNGUS; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HOST CELL; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; PATHOGENICITY;

EXTRACELLULAR VESICLES; FUNGI; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; MYCOBACTERIUM;

EID: 84941877534     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: 17401534     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro3480     Document Type: Review

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