Automated quantification of the phagocytosis of Aspergillus fumigatus conidia by a novel image analysis algorithm

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 6, Issue JUN, 2015, Pages 1-

  Kraibooj, Kaswara ^a,b   Schoeler, Hanno ^a,b   Svensson, Carl Magnus ^a   Brakhage, Axel A ^a,b   Figge, Marc Thilo ^a,b  

^a HANS KNÖLL INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Automated image analysis; Alveolar macrophages; Aspergillus fumigatus; Host pathogen interaction; Phagocytosis assay

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; CELL AGGREGATION; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONIDIUM; FUNGAL DEVELOPMENT; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; MACROPHAGE; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTOSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; WATERSHED;

ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; FUNGI; MURINAE;

EID: 84937000053     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.00549     Document Type: Article

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