Passage through Tetrahymena tropicalis enhances the resistance to stress and the infectivity of Legionella pneumophila

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 325, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 10-15

  Koubar, Mohamad ^a   Rodier, Marie Hélène ^a   Garduño, Rafael A ^b   Frère, Jacques ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE POITIERS   (France)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Legionella survival; Mature intracellular forms; Tetrahymena pellets

Indexed keywords

GENTAMICIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL REPRODUCTION; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIAL VIABILITY; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM COLONY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; INFECTION RISK; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; LEGIONNAIRE DISEASE; LUNG ALVEOLUS CELL; MICROBIAL MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TETRAHYMENA; TETRAHYMENA TROPICALIS;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CULTURE MEDIA; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; GENTAMICINS; HUMANS; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TETRAHYMENA; TIME FACTORS; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CILIOPHORA; LEGIONELLA; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; NEGIBACTERIA; TETRAHYMENA; TETRAHYMENA TROPICALIS;

EID: 80755167733     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2011.02402.x     Document Type: Article

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