The mechanism of killing and exiting the protozoan host Acanthamoeba polyphaga by Legionella pneumophila

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 79-90

  Gao, L Y ^a   Kwaik, Y A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLORING AGENT; DACTINOMYCIN; FLUORESCEIN ISOTHIOCYANATE; LIPOCORTIN 5; PROPIDIUM IODIDE;

ACANTHAMOEBA; ANIMAL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; MICROBIOLOGY; MUTATION; NECROSIS; NICK END LABELING; PATHOGENICITY;

ACANTHAMOEBA; ANIMALS; ANNEXIN A5; APOPTOSIS; COLORING AGENTS; DACTINOMYCIN; FLUORESCEIN-5-ISOTHIOCYANATE; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MUTATION; NECROSIS; PROPIDIUM;

ACANTHAMOEBA POLYPHAGA; ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); INVERTEBRATA; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; MAMMALIA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0034544235     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1462-2920.2000.00076.x     Document Type: Article

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