Legionella pneumophila kills human phagocytes but not protozoan host cells by inducing apoptotic cell death

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 169, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 51-58

  Hägele, Sonja ^a   Hacker, Jörg ^a   Brand, Bettina C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acanthamoeba castellanii; Annexin V; Apoptosis; Human monocyte; Legionella pneumophila

Indexed keywords

LIPOCORTIN 5; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ACANTHAMOEBA CASTELLANII; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HOST CELL; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; LEGIONNAIRE DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ACANTHAMOEBA; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; HUMANS; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; PHAGOCYTES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ACANTHAMOEBA CASTELLANII; EUKARYOTA; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0038365656     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(98)00463-7     Document Type: Article

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