Invasion and persistent intracellular colonization of erythrocytes: A unique parasitic strategy of the emerging pathogen Bartonella

Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 193, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 1077-1086

  Schülein, Ralf ^a,b   Seubert, Anja ^a,b   Gille, Christian ^b   Lanz, Christa ^b   Hansmann, Yves ^c   Piémont, Yves ^c   Dehio, Christoph ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b MAX PLANCK INST FÜR BIOLOGIE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

Bartonella; Erythrocyte parasitism; Flow cytometry; GFP; Whole blood biotinylation

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL COUNT; BARTONELLA; BIOTINYLATION; CELL INVASION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; INOCULATION; LIFESPAN; NONHUMAN; PARASITISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REINFECTION; RICKETTSIOSIS;

ANIMALS; BARTONELLA; BARTONELLA INFECTIONS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ERYTHROCYTES; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENES, REPORTER; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HEMOLYSIS; INTRACELLULAR FLUID; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0343831897     PISSN: 00221007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1084/jem.193.9.1077     Document Type: Article

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