Phagocytic uptake of Encephalitozoon cuniculi by nonprofessional phagocytes

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 68, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 6939-6945

  Couzinet, Sabine ^a   Cejas, Elisabeth ^a   Schittny, Johannes ^b   Deplazes, Peter ^c   Weber, Rainer ^d   Zimmerli, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHALASIN D;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENCEPHALITOZOON CUNICULI; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTERNALIZATION; MACROPHAGE; MONOCYTE; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; ENCEPHALITOZOON CUNICULI; ENDOSOMES; HUMANS; LYSOSOMES; PHAGOCYTES; PHAGOCYTOSIS; VACUOLES;

EID: 0034440520     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.68.12.6939-6945.2000     Document Type: Article

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