Development of a high- versus low-pathogenicity model of the free-living amoeba Naegleria fowleri

Microbiology (United Kingdom)

Volumn 158, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 2652-2660

  Burri, Denise C ^a,b   Gottstein, Bruno ^b   Zumkehr, Béatrice ^b   Hemphill, Andrew ^b   Schürch, Nadia ^a   Wittwer, Matthias ^a   Müller, Norbert ^b  

^a SPIEZ LABORATORY   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOEBA (GENUS); ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FEMALE; FIBROBLAST; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MEMBRANE VESICLE; MICROBIAL GROWTH; MICROMORPHOLOGY; MOUSE; NAEGLERIA FOWLERI; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TARGET CELL DESTRUCTION; TROPHOZOITE;

AMEBIASIS; ANIMALS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM PROTOZOAL INFECTIONS; CULTURE MEDIA; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FIBROBLASTS; HUMANS; HYDROLYSIS; L CELLS (CELL LINE); LIVER; MICE; NAEGLERIA FOWLERI; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TROPHOZOITES;

AMOEBA (GENUS); MUS; NAEGLERIA; NAEGLERIA FOWLERI;

EID: 84867128758     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.059790-0     Document Type: Article

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