In vitro cultivation and antibiotic susceptibility of a Cytophaga-like intracellular symbiote isolated from the tick Ixodes scapularis

Current Microbiology

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 324-329

  Morimoto, Sayaka ^a   Kurtti, Timothy J ^b   Noda, Hiroaki ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; PENICILLIN G; RIFAMPICIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CELL LINE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPATHOGENIC EFFECT; CYTOPHAGA; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; IN VITRO STUDY; INSECT CELL CULTURE; INTRACELLULAR MEMBRANE; IXODES SCAPULARIS; LEPIDOPTERA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STEADY STATE; SYMBIOTES;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CELL LINE; CYTOPHAGA; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; INSECTS; IXODES; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; SYMBIOSIS;

ACARI; ARTHROPODA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYTOPHAGA; INSECTA; IXODES SCAPULARIS; LEPIDOPTERA;

EID: 33645222600     PISSN: 03438651     EISSN: 14320991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00284-005-0349-7     Document Type: Article

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