Is Acanthamoeba pathogenicity associated with intracellular bacteria?

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 129, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 207-210

  Paterson, Graeme Neil ^a   Rittig, Michael ^a   Siddiqui, Ruqaiyyah ^b   Khan, Naveed Ahmed ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Acanthamoeba; Encystment; Endosymbionts; Pathogenicity

Indexed keywords

ACANTHAMOEBA; ACANTHAMOEBA KERATITIS; ARTICLE; CELL ORGANELLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; CYST (RESTING STAGE); ENDOSYMBIONT; INTRACELLULAR BACTERIUM; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; PARASITE ISOLATION; PARASITE VIRULENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TROPHOZOITE;

ACANTHAMOEBA; ACANTHAMOEBA KERATITIS; BACTERIA; BRAIN; CELLS, CULTURED; CORNEA; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SYMBIOSIS; VIRULENCE;

ACANTHAMOEBA;

EID: 80052412795     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2011.06.017     Document Type: Article

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