Acanthamoeba feature a unique backpacking strategy to trap and feed on Listeria monocytogenes and other motile bacteria

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 433-446

  Doyscher, Dominik ^a   Fieseler, Lars ^c   Dons, Lone ^b   Loessner, Martin J ^a   Schuppler, Markus ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c ZURICH UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACANTHAMOEBA; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; METABOLISM; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; MICROBIOLOGY; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PHYSIOLOGY;

ACANTHAMOEBA; BACTERIA; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; PHAGOCYTOSIS;

ACANTHAMOEBA; ACANTHAMOEBA CASTELLANII; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LISTERIA; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; PROTOZOA;

EID: 84873138522     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2012.02858.x     Document Type: Article

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