Sustained axenic metabolic activity by the obligate intracellular bacterium Coxiella burnetii

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 190, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 3203-3212

  Omsland, Anders ^a   Cockrell, Diane C ^a   Fischer, Elizabeth R ^a   Heinzen, Robert A ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; CHLORIDE; CITRIC ACID; CYSTEINE; METHIONINE; PEPTONE; POTASSIUM; SODIUM; SULFUR 35;

ACIDIFICATION; ARTICLE; AUXOTROPHY; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; CELL VACUOLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COXIELLA BURNETII; CULTURE MEDIUM; FETAL BOVINE SERUM; HOST CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHAGOLYSOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; Q FEVER; SERUM;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; BUFFERS; CARBON; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; COXIELLA BURNETII; CULTURE MEDIA; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BOVINAE; COXIELLA; COXIELLA BURNETII; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 42549160547     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.01911-07     Document Type: Article

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