Chlamydia pneumoniae hides inside apoptotic neutrophils to silently infect and propagate in macrophages

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Rupp, Jan ^a,b   Pfleiderer, Lisa ^c   Jugert, Christiane ^a   Moeller, Sonja ^a   Klinger, Matthias ^a   Dalhoff, Klaus ^b   Solbach, Werner ^a   Stenger, Steffen ^c   Laskay, Tamas ^a   van Zandbergen, Ger ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIPOCORTIN 5; RNA POLYMERASE; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; CYTOKINE;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; CELL DIVISION; CELL VIABILITY; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GRANULOCYTE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MACROPHAGE; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL LINE; CELL SEPARATION; CYTOLOGY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; LUNG ALVEOLUS MACROPHAGE; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

CHLAMYDIAE; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE;

APOPTOSIS; CELL LINE; CELL SEPARATION; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; CYTOKINES; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GRANULOCYTES; HUMANS; MACROPHAGES; MACROPHAGES, ALVEOLAR; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEUTROPHILS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 67650314612     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0006020     Document Type: Article

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