Chlamydia psittaci: Update on an underestimated zoonotic agent

Pathogens and Disease

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Knittler, Michael R ^a   Sachse, Konrad ^a  

^a FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Animal models; Chlamydia psittaci; Epidemiology; Host adaptation; Immune evasion; Immune response; Molecular and clinical pathogenesis; Whole genome analysis

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; MOLECULAR MOTOR; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; BACTERIAL GENETICS; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CHILL; CHLAMYDIA PSITTACI; CLINICAL FEATURE; COUGHING; DYSPNEA; ENDOCARDITIS; FEVER; GENETIC MARKER; HEADACHE; HEPATOMEGALY; HOST CELL; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOLOGY; INNATE IMMUNITY; INTRACELLULAR TRANSPORT; MALAISE; MYALGIA; MYOCARDITIS; NONHUMAN; ORNITHOSIS; PATHOGENESIS; PERICARDITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTYPING; SHORT SURVEY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPLENOMEGALY; STATIC ELECTRICITY; TYPE III SECRETION SYSTEM; UPREGULATION; ANIMAL; BACTERIAL GENOME; BIRD; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; CHLAMYDOPHILA PSITTACI; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 84943605792     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2049632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/femspd/ftu007     Document Type: Short Survey

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