Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex mycobacteria as amoeba-resistant organisms

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Mba Medie, Felix ^a,b   Ben Salah, Iskandar ^a   Henrissat, Bernard ^b   Raoult, Didier ^a   Drancourt, Michel ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUTARALDEHYDE; STREPTOMYCIN;

ACANTHAMOEBA; ACANTHAMOEBA POLYPHAGA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CELL VACUOLE; COCULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYST (RESTING STAGE); MICROSCOPY; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM CANETTII; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS COMPLEX; NONHUMAN; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; PHAGOCYTOSIS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

ACANTHAMOEBA; ANIMALS; HUMANS; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; TROPHOZOITES;

ACANTHAMOEBA POLYPHAGA; ANIMALIA; CORYNEBACTERINEAE; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM CANETTII; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS COMPLEX;

EID: 79958065874     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0020499     Document Type: Article

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