Ultrastructural analysis of primary human urethral epithelial cell cultures infected with Neisseria gonorrhoeae

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 2420-2427

  Harvey, Hillery A ^a   Ketterer, Margaret R ^a   Preston, Andrew ^a   Lubaroff, David ^a,b   Williams, Richard ^b   Apicella, Michael A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CELL VACUOLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; EPITHELIUM CELL; GONOCOCCAL URETHRITIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MALE; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ASIALOGLYCOPROTEIN RECEPTOR; CELLS, CULTURED; EPITHELIUM; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; RNA, MESSENGER; URETHRA; URETHRITIS;

EID: 0030955850     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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