Interaction of the legionnaires' disease bacterium (legionella pneumophila) with human phagocytes. I. L. pneumophila resists killing by polymorphonuclearleukocytes, antibody, and complement
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- 1 February 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Rockefeller University Press in The Journal of Experimental Medicine
- Vol. 153 (2) , 386-397
- https://doi.org/10.1084/jem.153.2.386
Abstract
We have previously reported that virulent egg yolk-grown Legionella pneumophila, Philadelphia 1 strain, multiplies intracellularly in human blood monocytes. We now report on the interaction between virulent L. pneumophila and human polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMN), antibody, and complement, in vitro, under antibiotic-free conditions.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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