Packaging of Live Legionella pneumophila into Pellets Expelled by Tetrahymena spp. Does Not Require Bacterial Replication and Depends on a Dot/Icm-Mediated Survival Mechanism

The freshwater ciliate Tetrahymena sp. efficiently ingested, but poorly digested, virulent strains of the gram-negative intracellular pathogen Legionella pneumophila. Ciliates expelled live legionellae packaged in free spherical pellets. The ingested legionellae showed no ultrastructural indicators...

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Autors principals: Berk, Sharon G., Faulkner, Gary, Garduño, Elizabeth, Joy, Mark C., Ortiz-Jimenez, Marco A., Garduño, Rafael A.
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Idioma:Inglês
Publicat: American Society for Microbiology (ASM) 2008
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Environmental Microbiology
Accés en línia:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2292602/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18245233
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1128/AEM.01214-07
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