Pantoea agglomerans: A mysterious bacterium of evil and good. Part III. Deleterious effects: Infections of humans, animals and plants

Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 197-205

  Dutkiewicz, Jacek ^a   Mackiewicz, Barbara ^b   Lemieszek, Marta Kinga ^a   Golec, Marcin ^a   Milanowski, Janusz ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL MEDICINE   (Poland)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF LUBLIN   (Poland)

Author keywords

Arthropods; Genetic determinants; Humans; Infections; Pantoea agglomerans; Plant pathogen; Vertebrate animals

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ARTHRITIS; BACTERIAL BLIGHT; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; ENDOPHTHALMITIS; GALL (PLANT); HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; NONHUMAN; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; OSTEOMYELITIS; PANTOEA AGGLOMERANS; PERIOSTITIS; QUORUM SENSING; REVIEW; SEPTICEMIA; SYNOVITIS; TYPE III SECRETION SYSTEM; VETERINARY ABORTION; WOUND INFECTION; ANIMAL; ARTHROPOD; CROSS INFECTION; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTION; MICROBIOLOGY; PANTOEA; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT DISEASE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; ARTHROPODS; CROSS INFECTION; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; HUMANS; PANTOEA; PLANT DISEASES;

EID: 84973386973     PISSN: 12321966     EISSN: 18982263     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5604/12321966.1203878     Document Type: Review

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