The use of differential display-PCR to isolate and characterize a Legionella pneumophila locus induced during the intracellular infection of macrophages

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 543-556

  Abu Kwaik, Yousef ^a   Pederson, Lisa L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CELL INTERACTION; GENE LOCUS; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; MACROPHAGE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; HARTMANNELLA VERMIFORMIS; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0345612098     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.1996.tb02563.x     Document Type: Article

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