Campylobacter jejuni actively invades the amoeba Acanthamoeba polyphaga and survives within non digestive vacuoles

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Olofsson, Jenny ^a,b   Axelsson Olsson, Diana ^b   Brudin, Lars ^c,d   Olsen, Björn ^a,b   Ellström, Patrik ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b LINNAEUS UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c KALMAR COUNTY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^d LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACANTHAMOEBA POLYPHAGA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIAL VIABILITY; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; CELL MIGRATION; CELL VACUOLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; INTERNALIZATION; NONHUMAN; TRANSPORT KINETICS; TROPHOZOITE;

ACANTHAMOEBA; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; ENDOSOMES; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HOT TEMPERATURE; INTRACELLULAR SPACE; LYSOSOMES; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; PHAGOSOMES; TIME FACTORS; TROPHOZOITES; VACUOLES;

EID: 84892404372     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0078873     Document Type: Article

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