Environmental Chlamydiae with medical significance:discovery and isolation of the Parachlamydiaceae from free-living amoebae;Umweltchlamydien mit medizinischer Bedeutung: Entdeckung und Isolierung der Parachlamydien aus freilebenden Amöben

Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift

Volumn 136, Issue 41, 2011, Pages 2100-2105

  Michel, R ^a  

^a Labor Abteilung Mikrobiologie Parasitologie   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amoeba; endoparasite; intracellular replication; Metachlamydia; Neochlamydia; Parachlamydiaceae; pathogens; Protochlamydia; ultrastructure

Indexed keywords

AMOEBA (GENUS); CHLAMYDIACEAE; ENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; PARACHLAMYDIACEAE; REVIEW; ACANTHAMOEBA; AMOEBA (LIFE CYCLE STAGE); BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; CASE REPORT; CHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDIACEAE INFECTION; CHLAMYDIASIS; CLASSIFICATION; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GENETICS; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HUMAN; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL RNA;

ACANTHAMOEBA; AMOEBA; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; CHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDIACEAE; CHLAMYDIACEAE INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDIALES; CLASSIFICATION; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; PHYLOGENY; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, BACTERIAL;

EID: 80053900333     PISSN: 00120472     EISSN: 14394413     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0031-1292020     Document Type: Review

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