Interaction of Listeria monocytogenes with human brain microvascular endothelial cells: InlB-dependent invasion, long-term intracellular growth, and spread from macrophages to endothelial cells

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 66, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 5260-5267

  Greiffenberg, Lars ^a   Goebel, Werner ^a   Kim, Kwang Sik ^b,c   Weiglein, Inge ^a   Bubert, Andreas ^a   Engelbrecht, Fredi ^a   Stins, Monique ^b   Kuhn, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; ENCEPHALITIS; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; HOST SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIOSIS; MACROPHAGE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0032429581     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.66.11.5260-5267.1998     Document Type: Article

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