Interactions between the environmental pathogen Listeria monocytogenes and a free-living protozoan (Acanthamoeba castellanii)

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 913-922

  Zhou, Xiaohui ^a   Elmose, Jennifer ^a   Call, Douglas R ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACANTHAMOEBA CASTELLANII; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; COCULTURE; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; GENOMIC ISLAND; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PHAGOCYTOSIS; POPULATION DENSITY; VIRULENCE;

ACANTHAMOEBA CASTELLANII; ANIMALS; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; GENOMIC ISLANDS; HUMANS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; PHAGOCYTOSIS; POPULATION DENSITY; SELECTION (GENETICS); VIRULENCE;

ACANTHAMOEBA CASTELLANII; ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LISTERIA; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; PROTOZOA;

EID: 33947174176     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2006.01213.x     Document Type: Article

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