Brucella dissociation is essential for macrophage egress and bacterial dissemination

Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

Volumn 5, Issue MAR, 2014, Pages

  Pei, Jianwu ^a   Kahl McDonagh, Melissa ^a   Ficht, Thomas A ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brucella dissociation; Egress and dissemination; Infection foci; Macrophage cytotoxicity; Plaque assay

Indexed keywords

GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; GENTAMICIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BRUCELLA; BRUCELLA MELITENSIS; CELL DEATH; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; GENOMIC ISLAND; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; INFLAMMATION; MACROPHAGE; MOUSE; MUTATION; NECROSIS; NONHUMAN; PHASE CONTRAST MICROSCOPY; ANIMAL; BRUCELLA DISSOCIATION; CELL LINE; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; EGRESS AND DISSEMINATION; INFECTION FOCI; MACROPHAGE CYTOTOXICITY; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROSCOPY; PHYSIOLOGY; VIRUS CULTURE; BACTERIAL EGRESS; BACTERIAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BRUCELLOSIS; CELL CULTURE; MACROPHAGE FUNCTION; PLAQUE FORMATION ASSAY; PROCEDURES CONCERNING CELLS; REINFECTION; STAINING;

BRUCELLA DISSOCIATION; EGRESS AND DISSEMINATION; INFECTION FOCI; MACROPHAGE CYTOTOXICITY; PLAQUE ASSAY;

ANIMALS; BRUCELLA; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL DEATH; CELL LINE; MACROPHAGES; MICE; MICROSCOPY;

EID: 84898729300     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22352988     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fcimb.2014.00023     Document Type: Article

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