Importance of amoebae as a tool to isolate amoeba-resisting microorganisms and for their ecology and evolution: The Chlamydia paradigm

Environmental Microbiology Reports

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 309-324

  Kebbi Beghdadi, Carole ^a   Greub, Gilbert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOEBA (LIFE CYCLE STAGE); ANIMAL; CHLAMYDIA; ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; LEGIONELLA; MACROPHAGE; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCOBACTERIUM; PHAGOCYTOSIS;

AMOEBA; ANIMALS; CHLAMYDIA; ECOSYSTEM; HUMANS; LEGIONELLA; MACROPHAGES; MYCOBACTERIUM; PHAGOCYTOSIS;

EID: 84903600851     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17582229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1758-2229.12155     Document Type: Review

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