Comparison of different staining procedures for the flow cytometric analysis of U-937 cells infected with different Leishmania-species

Journal of Microbiological Methods

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 123-138

  Abdullah, Sabeeha Mahdi ^a   Flath, Bernd ^b   Presber, Hans Wolfgang ^a  

^a Inst of Med Microbiol and Hygiene   (Germany)

^b Medizinische Klinik und Poliklinik II   (Germany)

Author keywords

FCM; Fluorescent dyes; Infection; Leishmania spp.; U 937 cells

Indexed keywords

ACRIDINE ORANGE; FLUORESCENT DYE; PROPIDIUM IODIDE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISHMANIA MEXICANA; LEISHMANIASIS; MACROPHAGE; MONOCYTE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAINING; TECHNIQUE;

ANIMALS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; FLUORESCENT DYES; HUMANS; LEISHMANIA; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; U937 CELLS;

EID: 0032967099     PISSN: 01677012     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-7012(99)00051-2     Document Type: Article

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