Vibrio cholerae O1 strains are facultative intracellular bacteria, able to survive and multiply symbiotically inside the aquatic free-living amoeba Acanthamoeba castellanii

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 33-39

  Abd, Hadi ^a   Saeed, Amir ^a   Weintraub, Andrej ^a   Nair, G Balakrish ^b   Sandström, Gunnar ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b ICDDRB Laboratory Sciences Division   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

Acanthamoeba; Cholera; Environmental reservoir

Indexed keywords

GENTAMICIN;

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; AQUATIC ORGANISM; BACTERIUM; BIOASSAY; CHOLERA; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GROWTH RATE; PROTOZOAN; SURVIVAL; SYMBIOSIS;

ACANTHAMOEBA CASTELLANII; AMOEBA; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BIOASSAY; CELL COUNT; CELL VIABILITY; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENDOCYTOBIOSIS; GRAM NEGATIVE FACULTATIVELY ANAEROBIC RODS; INTRACELLULAR SPACE; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMBIOSIS; TROPHOZOITE; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

ACANTHAMOEBA CASTELLANII; ANIMALS; CHOLERA; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; SYMBIOSIS; TROPHOZOITES; VIBRIO CHOLERAE O1; WATER;

ACANTHAMOEBA; ACANTHAMOEBA CASTELLANII; NEGIBACTERIA; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 33947290079     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2006.00254.x     Document Type: Article

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