State and future of studies on bacterial pathogenicity: Impact of new methods of studying bacterial behavior in vivo

Virulence Mechanisms of Bacterial Pathogens

Volumn , Issue , 2022, Pages 265-282

  Smith, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antibacterial drugs; Bacterial pathogens; Differential fluorescence induction (DFI); Gene expression; Signature tagged mutagenesis (STM); Virulence genes

Indexed keywords

EID: 85147979301     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1128/9781555818111.ch18     Document Type: Chapter

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