Fatal attraction of mammalian cells to Legionella pneumophila

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 689-695

  Kwaik, Yousef Abu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APOPTOSIS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CELL KILLING; CYTOLYSIS; ENDOSOME; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INDUCTION; GENE LOCUS; GROWTH CURVE; HOST CELL; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; LEGIONNAIRE DISEASE; LYSOSOME; MAMMAL CELL; NECROSIS; NONHUMAN; PHAGOSOME; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; ROUGH ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; STARVATION;

ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; INTRACELLULAR FLUID; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; MAMMALS; PHAGOSOMES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; MAMMALIA; NEGIBACTERIA; PROTOZOA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 15144351330     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.01092.x     Document Type: Review

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