Intracellular multiplication of Legionella pneumophila: Human pathogen or accidental tourist?

Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology

Volumn 225, Issue , 1997, Pages 99-112

  Shuman, H A ^a   Purcell, M ^a   Segal, G ^a   Hales, L ^a   Wiater, L A ^a  

^a The New York Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL DIVISION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; ENVIRONMENT; HUMAN; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TOXIN ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; CELL DEATH; HUMANS; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; MONOCYTES;

EID: 0030770709     PISSN: 0070217X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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