Article
Intracellular survival and replication of Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae within murine macrophages: failure of induction of the oxidative burst of macrophages.
Infection and immunity - 1 May 1996
Shimoji Y, Yokomizo Y, Mori Y
Abstract excerpt
We investigated the ability of a virulent wild-type parent strain and acapsular avirulent transposon mutants to enter and survive intracellularly within murine peritoneal macrophages. In the presence of normal or immune serum, the parent and mutant strains were both ingested; however, the number...
Topics
- Animals
- Erysipelothrix
- Female
- In Vitro Techniques
- Luminescent Measurements
- Macrophages, Peritoneal
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred BALB C
- Mutation
- Nitroblue Tetrazolium
- Oxidation-Reduction
- Phagocytosis
- Respiratory Burst
- Virulence