Acanthamoeba containing endosymbiotic chlamydia isolated from hospital environments and its potential role in inflammatory exacerbation

BACKGROUND: Environmental chlamydiae belonging to the Parachlamydiaceae are obligate intracellular bacteria that infect Acanthamoeba, a free-living amoeba, and are a risk for hospital-acquired pneumonia. However, whether amoebae harboring environmental chlamydiae actually survive in hospital environ...

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Autores principales: Fukumoto, Tatsuya, Matsuo, Junji, Okubo, Torahiko, Nakamura, Shinji, Miyamoto, Kentaro, Oka, Kentaro, Takahashi, Motomichi, Akizawa, Kouji, Shibuya, Hitoshi, Shimizu, Chikara, Yamaguchi, Hiroyuki
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5160005/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27978822
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12866-016-0906-1

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