The anaerobic pathogen Clostridium perfringens can escape the phagosome of macrophages under aerobic conditions

Cellular Microbiology

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 505-519

  O'Brien, D K ^a   Melville, S B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL TOXIN; CYTOCHALASIN D; LYSOSOMAL MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEIN 1; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACTIN POLYMERIZATION; AEROBIC CAPACITY; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CELL ADHESION; CELL CLONE; CELL MEMBRANE; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GAS GANGRENE; IMAGING; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; ISCHEMIA; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PERITONEUM MACROPHAGE; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PHAGOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACTINS; AEROBIOSIS; ANAEROBIOSIS; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD; CELL LINE; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; FEMALE; LYSOSOME-ASSOCIATED MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MACROPHAGES; MACROPHAGES, PERITONEAL; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MICE; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PHAGOSOMES;

ANIMALIA; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTERIUM SUBTILIS; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; MURINAE;

EID: 0034518801     PISSN: 14625814     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1462-5822.2000.00074.x     Document Type: Article

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