Marine mammal Brucella isolates with different genomic characteristics display a differential response when infecting human macrophages in culture

Microbes and Infection

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 361-366

  Maquart, Marianne ^a   Zygmunt, Michel S ^a   Cloeckaert, Axel ^a  

^a UR1282   (France)

Author keywords

Brucella; Hooded seal; Infection; IS711; Macrophages; Marine mammal; Southern blot

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BRUCELLA; BRUCELLA CETI; BRUCELLA MELITENSIS; BRUCELLA PINNIPEDIALIS; BRUCELLA SUIS; BRUCELLOSIS; CELL CULTURE; CULTURE MEDIUM; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MACROPHAGE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BRUCELLA; BRUCELLOSIS; CELL LINE; HUMANS; MACROPHAGES; MAMMALS; VIRULENCE;

BRUCELLA; BRUCELLA MELITENSIS; BRUCELLA SUIS 1330; CYSTOPHORA (MAMMALIA); CYSTOPHORA CRISTATA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 62949115066     PISSN: 12864579     EISSN: 1769714X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.micinf.2008.12.012     Document Type: Article

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