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Coxiella burnetii localizes in a Rab7-labeled compartment with autophagic characteristics.
Infection and immunity - 1 Oct 2002
Berón Walter, Gutierrez Maximiliano G, Rabinovitch Michel, Colombo Maria I
Abstract excerpt
The obligate intracellular bacterium Coxiella burnetii, the agent of Q fever in humans and of coxiellosis in other animals, survives and replicates within large, acidified, phagolysosome-like vacuoles known to fuse homo- and heterotypically with other vesicles. To further characterize these vacuoles, HeLa cells were infected with C. burnetii phase II; 48 h later, bacteria-containing vacuoles were labeled by...
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