Article
Association of flagellum expression and intracellular growth of Legionella pneumophila.
Infection and immunity - 1 Dec 1995
Pruckler J M, Benson R F, Moyenuddin M, Martin W T, Fields B S
Abstract excerpt
We examined the role of the flagella of Legionella pneumophila in the infection of amoebae and human monocyte-like cells. Insertional mutants were constructed with mini-Tn10. Ten mutants (F-) which did not react with polyclonal L. pneumophila antiflagellar antisera were identified. Ten randomly s...
Topics
- Animals
- Cell Line
- Flagella
- Humans
- Immune Sera
- Legionella pneumophila
- Monocytes
- Mutation
- Rabbits