Colonization of the salivary glands of Naucoris cimicoides by Mycobacterium ulcerans requires host plasmatocytes and a macrolide toxin, mycolactone

Cellular Microbiology

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 935-943

  Marsollier, Laurent ^a   Aubry, Jacques ^b   Coutanceau, Emmanuelle ^a   Saint André, Jean Paul ^c   Small, Pamela L ^d   Milon, Geneviève ^a   Legras, Pierre ^c   Guadagnini, Stéphanie ^a   Carbonnelle, Bernard ^c   Cole, Stewart T ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

^c ANGERS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL TOXIN; MYCOLACTONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALGA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BIOFILM; BURULI ULCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMIDITY; INSECT; LEPROSY; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MOUSE; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM ULCERANS; NONHUMAN; PLASMA CELL; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALIVARY GLAND DISEASE; SKIN INJURY; TROPIC CLIMATE; TUBERCULOSIS; VEGETARIAN;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BIOFILMS; EXTREMITIES; HETEROPTERA; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS, ATYPICAL; MYCOBACTERIUM ULCERANS; SALIVARY GLANDS;

ALGAE; INSECTA; MYCOBACTERIUM ULCERANS; NAUCORIDAE;

EID: 21344459488     PISSN: 14625814     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-5822.2005.00521.x     Document Type: Article

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