Environmental amoebae and mycobacterial pathogenesis

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 465, Issue , 2008, Pages 433-442

  Harriff, Melanie ^a   Bermudez, Luiz E ^b  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acanthamoeba; Increase of virulence; Intracellular; Macrophage; Mucosal epithelial cell; Mycobacterium avium; Mycobacterium marinum; Mycobacterium peregrinum

Indexed keywords

ACANTHAMOEBA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CORYNEBACTERINEAE; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM MARINUM; MYCOBACTERIUM PEREGRINUM;

EID: 84555202418     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-59745-207-6_28     Document Type: Article

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