Use of salt to isolate Legionella pneumophila mutants unable to replicate in macrophages

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 797, Issue , 1996, Pages 271-272

  Vogel, Joseph P ^a   Roy, Craig ^a   Isberg, Ralph R ^a  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SODIUM CHLORIDE;

BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CONFERENCE PAPER; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; LEGIONNAIRE DISEASE; LYSOSOME MEMBRANE; MACROPHAGE; MEMBRANE FUSION; NONHUMAN;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA;

EID: 0030451548     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1996.tb52975.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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