Automated image analysis of the host-pathogen interaction between phagocytes and aspergillus fumigatus

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Mech, Franziska ^a   Thywißen, Andreas ^a,b   Guthke, Reinhard ^a   Brakhage, Axel A ^a,b   Figge, Marc Thilo ^a,b  

^a HANS KNÖLL INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; AUTOANALYSIS; CELL ADHESION; CELL AGGREGATION; CELL COUNT; CELL INTERACTION; CELL SHAPE; CELL SIZE; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGAL STRAIN; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INCUBATION TIME; MACROPHAGE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTE; PHAGOCYTOSIS; ANIMAL; AUTOMATION; CYTOLOGY; FUNGUS SPORE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; FUNGI;

ANIMALS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; AUTOMATION; CELL ADHESION; CELL AGGREGATION; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICE; PHAGOCYTES; PHAGOCYTOSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPORES, FUNGAL;

EID: 79955795716     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0019591     Document Type: Article

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