Effects of antibiotics on the early infection process of a macronuclear endosymbiotic bacterium Holospora obtusa of Paramecium caudatum

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 179, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 473-477

  Dohra, Hideo ^a,c   Fujishima, Masahiro ^a,b  

^a YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Antibiotic; Emetine; Holospora obtusa; Infection; Paramecium caudatum; Symbiont

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BACTERIAL DNA; CHLORAMPHENICOL; EMETINE; INDIAN INK; MITOMYCIN; RIFAMPICIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CELL VACUOLE; DRUG EFFECT; MACRONUCLEUS; NONHUMAN; PARAMECIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA, BACTERIAL; EMETINE; PARAMECIUM; SYMBIOSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CILIOPHORA; HOLOSPORA OBTUSA; PARAMECIUM CAUDATUM;

EID: 0032821566     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(99)00443-7     Document Type: Article

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