Experimental yersinia infection of human synovial cells: Persistence of live bacteria and generation of bacterial antigen deposits including "ghosts," nucleic acid-free bacterial rods

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 1484-1487

  Huppertz, Hans Iko ^a,b   Heesemann, Jürgen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; BACTERIUM LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; GENTAMICIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CELL ADHESION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GIEMSA STAIN; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFLAMMATION; INTERNALIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTIVE ARTHRITIS; SYNOVIOCYTE; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA;

ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; ARTHRITIS, INFECTIOUS; CELLS, CULTURED; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENTAMICINS; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; SYNOVIAL MEMBRANE; VIRULENCE; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA;

EID: 0029930280     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.64.4.1484-1487.1996     Document Type: Article

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