Comparative assessment of virulence traits in Legionella spp

Microbiology

Volumn 149, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 631-641

  Alli, O A Terry ^a   Zink, Steven ^a   von Lackum, Katherine ^a   Abu Kwaik, Yousef ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT;

APOPTOSIS; ASSAY; AUSTRALIA; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL REPRODUCTION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CELL STRAIN U937; CHANNEL GATING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLYSIS; CYTOPATHOGENIC EFFECT; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; EUROPE; GRAM NEGATIVE FACULTATIVELY ANAEROBIC RODS; HOST CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LEGIONELLA; LEGIONELLA LONGBEACHAE; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; LEGIONNAIRE DISEASE; LUNG ALVEOLUS; MACROPHAGE; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; UNITED STATES;

APOPTOSIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA FRAGMENTATION; HEMOLYSIS; HUMANS; LEGIONELLA; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; MACROPHAGES; U937 CELLS; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LEGIONELLA; LEGIONELLA LONGBEACHAE; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA SEROGROUP 1; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0037352409     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.25980-0     Document Type: Review

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