Efficient method of cloning the obligate intracellular bacterium Coxiella burnetii

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 73, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 4048-4054

  Beare, Paul A ^a   Howe, Dale ^a   Cockrell, Diane C ^a   Heinzen, Robert A ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL GROWTH; CLONING; FLUORESCENCE; GROWTH KINETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY;

COXIELLA BURNETII; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; LYSOSOME;

BACTERIA;

BACTERIUM; CELL ORGANELLE; CLONE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; COXIELLA BURNETII; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MICROMANIPULATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VERO CELL;

ANIMALS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; CLONE CELLS; COXIELLA BURNETII; DNA PRIMERS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MICROMANIPULATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VACUOLES; VERO CELLS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); COXIELLA BURNETII;

EID: 34250803263     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00411-07     Document Type: Article

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