Temperature-dependent parasitic relationship between Legionella pneumophila and a free-living amoeba (Acanthamoeba castellanii)

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 74, Issue 14, 2008, Pages 4585-4588

  Ohno, Akira ^a   Kato, Naoyuki ^a   Sakamoto, Ryota ^a,b   Kimura, Soichiro ^a   Yamaguchi, Keizo ^a  

^a TOHO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACANTHAMOEBA; EFFECTS OF TEMPERATURE; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT;

CASPASE;

BACTERIUM; DIGESTION; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; LOW TEMPERATURE; PROTOZOAN; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ACANTHAMOEBA CASTELLANII; AMOEBA; ARTICLE; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; LOW TEMPERATURE; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

ACANTHAMOEBA CASTELLANII; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CASPASES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, PROTOZOAN; TEMPERATURE; TROPHOZOITES; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

ACANTHAMOEBA CASTELLANII; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA;

EID: 47749119255     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00083-08     Document Type: Article

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