Novel Parachlamydia acanthamoebae quantification method based on coculture with amoebae

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 74, Issue 20, 2008, Pages 6397-6404

  Matsuo, Junji ^a   Hayashi, Yasuhiro ^a   Nakamura, Shinji ^c   Sato, Marie ^a   Mizutani, Yoshihiko ^c   Asaka, Masahiro ^b   Yamaguchi, Hiroyuki ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL CULTURE; BACTERIA; BACTERIOLOGY; CELLS; CYTOLOGY; MAMMALS; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; PATHOGENS; SELF ASSEMBLY;

ACANTHAMOEBA; BACTERIAL NUMBERS; CO-CULTURE; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FLUORESCENT IN SITU HYBRIDIZATIONS; HOST CELLS; HUMAN PATHOGENS; INFECTION RATES; INFECTIOUS DOSES; MAMMALIAN CELL LINES; NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS; PERSISTENT INFECTIONS; PRECULTURE; QUANTIFICATION METHODS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRONS; VERO CELLS;

CELL CULTURE;

RNA 16S;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; BACTERIAL DISEASE; MAMMAL; PROTOZOAN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VIABILITY;

ACANTHAMOEBA CASTELLANII; AMOEBA; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CHLAMYDIACEAE; COCULTURE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARACHLAMYDIA ACANTHAMOEBAE; PARASITE CULTIVATION; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

AMOEBA; ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; CHLAMYDIALES; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; INDOLES; STAINING AND LABELING;

ACANTHAMOEBA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLAMYDIAE; CHLAMYDIALES; MAMMALIA; PARACHLAMYDIA ACANTHAMOEBAE;

EID: 54949095429     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00841-08     Document Type: Article

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