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Characterization of avirulent mutant Legionella pneumophila that survive but do not multiply within human monocytes

Legionella pneumophila, the causative agent of Legionnaires' disease, is a Gram-negative bacterium and a facultative intracellular parasite that multiplies in human monocytes and alveolar macrophages. In this paper, mutants of L. pneumophila avirulent for human monocytes were obtained and exten...

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Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: The Rockefeller University Press 1987
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2189638/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3681188
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