Phagocytic Uptake of Encephalitozoon cuniculi by Nonprofessional Phagocytes
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Phagocytic uptake of Encephalitozoon cuniculi by nonprofessional phagocytes.
Encephalitozoon cuniculi is an obligate intracellular, spore-forming parasite belonging to the microsporidia that can cause disseminated infection in immunocompromised persons. E. cuniculi spores infect host cells by germination, i.e., by explosively everting the polar filament, through which the spore contents (sporoplasms) are subsequently injected into the cytoplasm. In addition, we observed...
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عنوان ژورنال: Infection and Immunity
سال: 2000
ISSN: 0019-9567,1098-5522
DOI: 10.1128/iai.68.12.6939-6945.2000