Endosymbiotic bacterium Protochlamydia can survive in acanthamoebae following encystation

Environmental Microbiology Reports

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 611-618

  Nakamura, Shinji ^a   Matsuo, Junji ^b   Hayashi, Yasuhiro ^b   Kawaguchi, Kouhei ^b   Yoshida, Mitsutaka ^a   Takahashi, Kaori ^a   Mizutani, Yoshihiko ^a   Yao, Takashi ^a   Yamaguchi, Hiroyuki ^b  

^a JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACANTHAMOEBIDAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CANDIDATUS PROTOCHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDIAE;

EID: 78649743125     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17582229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1758-2229.2010.00182.x     Document Type: Article

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