Obligate intracellular bacterial parasites of acanthamoebae related to Chlamydia spp.

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 115-121

  Amann, Rudolf ^a,d   Springer, Nina ^a   Schönhuber, Wilhelm ^a   Ludwig, Wolfgang ^a   Schmid, Ernst N ^b   Müller, Karl Dieter ^b   Michel, Rolf ^c  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^c Ernst Rodenwaldt Institut Koblenz   (Germany)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME RNA;

ACANTHAMOEBA; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHLAMYDIACEAE; NONHUMAN; NOSE MUCOSA; PHYLOGENY; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 0031015252     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.63.1.115-121.1997     Document Type: Article

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