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Genetic control of macrophage susceptibility to infection by Legionella pneumophila.
FEMS microbiology immunology - 1 Feb 1992
Yamamoto Y, Klein T W, Friedman H
Abstract excerpt
Legionella pneumophila readily grows in cultures of thioglycollate (TGC)-induced macrophages (MPs) from A/J mice, but not in MPs from BALB/c mice or other mouse strains. In the present study, the growth of Legionella pneumophilia in MPs from A/J and BALB/c mice, as well as hybrids of the two strains and back-crossed mice, was investigated to determine whether the permissiveness of growth of these bacteria was due...
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