Survival characteristics of diarrheagenic Escherichia coli pathotypes and Helicobacter pylori during passage through the free-living ciliate, Tetrahymena sp.

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 574-583

  Smith, Charlotte D ^a   Berk, Sharon G ^b   Brandl, Maria T ^c   Riley, Lee W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b TENNESSEE TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Confocal laser scanning microscopy; Electron microscopy; Fecal pellets; Phagosome; Protozoa; Vesicle

Indexed keywords

CILIATE; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; DIARRHEAL DISEASE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FECAL PELLET; PATHOTYPE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SURVIVAL; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; HELICOBACTER INFECTION; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMAN; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; TETRAHYMENA; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; HELICOBACTER INFECTIONS; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMANS; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; TETRAHYMENA; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CILIOPHORA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; MAMMALIA; PROTOZOA; TETRAHYMENA; TETRAHYMENA SP.;

EID: 84869885261     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2012.01428.x     Document Type: Article

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