Microorganisms Resistant to Free-Living Amoebae

Clinical Microbiology Reviews

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 413-433

  Greub, Gilbert ^a,b   Raoult, Didier ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCIDE; CHLORINE;

AMOEBA; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BOSEA; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; ENDOSYMBIONT; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; LEGIONELLA; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LYSIS; MACROPHAGE; MICROBIAL GROWTH; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; NONHUMAN; PARACHLAMYDIA ACANTHAMOEBAE; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REVIEW; SIMKANIA NEGEVENSIS; SURVIVAL;

AMOEBA; ANIMALS; BACTERIA; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES;

ACANTHAMOEBIDAE; ALGAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLAMYDOPHILA; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; EQUUS CABALLUS; FILOBASIDIELLA NEOFORMANS; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; FUNGI; LEGIONELLA; LISTERIA; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; NEGIBACTERIA; PARACHLAMYDIA ACANTHAMOEBAE; PROTISTA; PROTOZOA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RICKETTSIALES; SIMKANIA NEGEVENSIS;

EID: 2042522697     PISSN: 08938512     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CMR.17.2.413-433.2004     Document Type: Review

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