Phagocytosis of Vibrio cholerae O139 bengal by human polymorphonuclear leukocytes

Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 276-278

  Albert, M John ^a   Qadri, Firdausi ^a   Bhuiyan, Nurul A ^a   Ahmad, Shaikh M ^a   Ansaruzzaman, M ^a   Weintraub, Andrej ^b  

^a ICDDRB Laboratory Sciences Division   (Bangladesh)

^b KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHOLERA; COLONY FORMING UNIT; DIARRHEA; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 0032979733     PISSN: 1071412X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/cdli.6.2.276-278.1999     Document Type: Article

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