The legionnaires’ disease bacterium (legionella pneumophila) inhibits phagosome-lysosome fusion in human monocytes

Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 158, Issue 6, 1983, Pages 2108-2126

  Horwitz, Marcus A ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACID PHOSPHATASE; ERYTHROMYCIN;

BACTERIAL INFECTION; BLOOD AND HEMOPOIETIC SYSTEM; CYTOCHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; ETIOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; LEGIONNAIRE DISEASE; LYSOSOME; MONOCYTE; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PHAGOSOME;

ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; COMPLEMENT; ERYTHROMYCIN; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; HUMAN; LEGIONELLA; LYSOSOMES; MONOCYTES; PHAGOCYTES; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0021014278     PISSN: 00221007     EISSN: 15409538     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1084/jem.158.6.2108     Document Type: Article

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