Molecular and cellular basis of Bartonella pathogenesis

Annual Review of Microbiology

Volumn 58, Issue , 2004, Pages 365-390

  Dehio, Christoph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Antiapoptosis; Cell proliferation; Endothelial cell; Erythrocyte; Invasion; Type IV secretion system

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BINDING PROTEIN; DEFORMIN; HEMIN BINDING PROTEIN; HEMOLYSIN; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN 43; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

APOPTOSIS; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BARTONELLA; BARTONELLOSIS; CAT SCRATCH DISEASE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL INVASION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; ENDOCARDITIS; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; ERYTHROCYTE; FEVER; HEMANGIOMATOSIS; HOST CELL; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NEURORETINITIS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURPURA; RETINITIS; REVIEW; RICKETTSIOSIS; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; TUMOR GROWTH; VASCULARIZATION;

ANIMALS; BACTEREMIA; BARTONELLA; BARTONELLA INFECTIONS; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; ERYTHROCYTES; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; VIRULENCE FACTORS; ZOONOSES;

ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BARTONELLA; FELIS CATUS; MAMMALIA; PURPURA; RICKETTSIALES;

EID: 8644255315     PISSN: 00664227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.micro.58.030603.123700     Document Type: Review

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