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Internalization and intracellular survival of<i>Mycoplasma pneumoniae</i>by non-phagocytic cells
1 Apr 2004
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Current theory holds that mycoplasmas remain attached to the surface of epithelial cells although some mycoplasmas have evolved mechanisms for entering host cells that are not naturally phagocytic. The ability of Mycoplasma pneumoniae strain M129 to invade and survive within host cells was studied using a HeLa cell line and a human lung carcinoma cell line (A549). The invasion process into the eukaryotic cells...
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