In vitro cultivation of an insect microsporidian Tubulinosema ratisbonensis in mammalian cells

Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 349-355

  Franzen, Caspar ^a   Fischer, Susanne ^b   Schroeder, Josef ^b   Bleiss, Wilfrid ^c   Schneuwly, Stephan ^b   Schölmerich, Jürgen ^a   Salzberger, Bernd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^c HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

In vitro culture; Microsporidia; Tubulinosematidae

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DISEASE; FUNGUS; INSECT; MAMMAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BRACHIOLA ALGERAE; BRACHIOLA VESICULARUM; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; INSECTA; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA; MICROSPORIDIA; TUBULINOSEMA RATISBONENSIS; TUBULINOSEMATIDAE;

PROTOZOAL DNA; RIBOSOME DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL LINE; CERCOPITHECUS; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; FIBROBLAST; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; KINETICS; MICROSPORIDA; PHASE CONTRAST MICROSCOPY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VERO CELL;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FIBROBLASTS; HUMANS; KINETICS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MICROSCOPY, PHASE-CONTRAST; MICROSPORIDIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VERO CELLS;

EID: 27244454046     PISSN: 10665234     EISSN: 15507408     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1550-7408.2005.00043x     Document Type: Article

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