Long-term survival and intracellular replication of Mycoplasma hominis in Trichomonas vaginalis cells: Potential role of the protozoon in transmitting bacterial infection

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 1180-1186

  Dessì, Daniele ^a   Delogu, Giuseppe ^a   Emonte, Eleonora ^a   Catania, Maria Rosaria ^b   Fiori, Pier Luigi ^a   Rappelli, Paola ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROXURIDINE; DNA; GENTAMICIN;

5 BROMODEOXYURIDINE INCORPORATION ASSAY; ARTICLE; ASSAY; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; DNA SYNTHESIS; DOUBLE IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; GENTAMICIN PROTECTION ASSAY; HOST RESISTANCE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MYCOPLASMA HOMINIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRESS; SYMBIOSIS; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CELL DIVISION; DNA; GENTAMICINS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MYCOPLASMA HOMINIS; MYCOPLASMA INFECTIONS; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS;

EID: 12844286180     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.73.2.1180-1186.2005     Document Type: Article

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