Interaction between Vibrio mimicus and Acanthamoeba castellanii

Environmental Microbiology Reports

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 166-171

  Abd, Hadi ^a   Valeru, Soni Priya ^a   Sami, Susan Marouf ^a   Saeed, Amir ^a,b   Raychaudhuri, Saumya ^c   Sandström, Gunnar ^a,b  

^a SWEDISH INSTITUTE FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASE CONTROL   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c INSTITUTE OF MICROBIAL TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACANTHAMOEBA; ACANTHAMOEBA CASTELLANII; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; VIBRIO; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; VIBRIO MIMICUS;

EID: 77957272023     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17582229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1758-2229.2009.00129.x     Document Type: Article

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