Mycobacterium avium bacilli grow saprozoically in coculture with Acanthamoeba polyphaga and survive within cyst walls

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 2256-2261

  Steinert, Michael ^a   Birkness, Kristin ^b   White, Elizabeth ^c   Fields, Barry ^a   Quinn, Frederick ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR IMMUNIZATION AND RESPIRATORY DISEASES   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^c CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYCARBONATE;

AMOEBAE; BACTERIAL PATHOGEN; LABORATORY CULTURE; MYCOBACTERIA;

ACANTHAMOEBA; AMOEBA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; PROTOZOON; WATER CONTAMINATION;

ACANTHAMOEBA POLYPHAGA; ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACILLI; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CORYNEBACTERINEAE; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM BACILLI; PROTOZOA; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0031778135     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.64.6.2256-2261.1998     Document Type: Article

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