Quantification of bacterial internalization by host cells using a β-lactamase reporter strain: Neisseria gonorrhoeae invasion into cervical epithelial cells requires bacterial viability

Microbes and Infection

Volumn 10, Issue 10-11, 2008, Pages 1182-1191

  Bish, Samuel E ^a   Song, Wenxia ^a   Stein, Daniel C ^a  

^a Bldg 142   (United States)

Author keywords

lactamase; Autodisplay; CCF2 AM; F actin; Invasion internalization; Neisseria gonorrhoeae

Indexed keywords

BETA LACTAMASE; F ACTIN; GENTAMICIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIABILITY; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HOST CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTERNALIZATION; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NEISSERIACEAE INFECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UTERINE CERVIX EPITHELIUM;

ACTINS; BACTERIAL ADHESION; BETA-LACTAMASES; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CERVIX UTERI; CLONING, MOLECULAR; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCEINS; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; LACTAMS; MEMBRANE FUSION PROTEINS; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE;

EID: 54049111352     PISSN: 12864579     EISSN: 1769714X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.micinf.2008.06.014     Document Type: Article

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