Shigella flexneri infection: pathogenesis and vaccine development
Open Access
- 29 February 2004
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Vol. 28 (1) , 43-58
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.femsre.2003.07.002
Abstract
Shigella flexneri is a gram-negative bacterium which causes the most communicable of bacterial dysenteries, shigellosis. Shigellosis causes 1.1 milliKeywords
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