Legionella pneumophilakills human phagocytes but not protozoan host cells by inducing apoptotic cell death
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- 1 December 1998
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in FEMS Microbiology Letters
- Vol. 169 (1), 51-58
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1574-6968.1998.tb13298.x
Abstract
Legionella pneumophila is a facultative intracellular parasite able to replicate within and to kill a variety of eukaryotic cells. One possible killiKeywords
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