Intracellular survival and replication of Vibrio cholerae O139 in aquatic free-living amoebae

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1003-1008

  Abd, Hadi ^a   Weintraub, Andrej ^a   Sandström, Gunnar ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WATER;

ACANTHAMOEBA CASTELLANII; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; COCULTURE; CULTURE MEDIUM; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; MICROBIOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

ACANTHAMOEBA CASTELLANII; ANIMALS; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; CULTURE MEDIA; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; VIBRIO CHOLERAE O139; WATER;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 20444472821     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2005.00771.x     Document Type: Article

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