Early Bacillus anthracis-macrophage interactions: Intracellular survival and escape

Cellular Microbiology

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 453-463

  Dixon, Terry C ^a,b   Fadl, Amin A ^c   Koehler, Theresa M ^c   Swanson, Joel A ^b   Hanna, Philip C ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXOTOXIN; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTHRAX; ARTICLE; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CELL INTERACTION; CELL SURVIVAL; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HOST; MACROPHAGE; MEMBRANE VESICLE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPORE GERMINATION; SYMPTOM; TOXIN SYNTHESIS; TRANSACTIVATION;

ANIMALS; ANTHRAX; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CHROMIUM; MACROPHAGES; MICE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; PHAGOSOMES; PLASMIDS; SPORES, BACTERIAL; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALIA; ANTHRAX; ANTHRAX BACILLUS; BACILLI; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MAMMALIA;

EID: 0034524336     PISSN: 14625814     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1462-5822.2000.00067.x     Document Type: Article

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