Selective requirement of the shikimate pathway of Legionella pneumophila for 1 intra - vacuolar growth within human macrophages but not Acanthamoeba
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Selective requirement of the shikimate pathway of Legionella pneumophila for 1 intra-vacuolar growth within human macrophages but not Acanthamoeba 2 3 Snake C. Jones, Christopher T. D. Price, Marina Santic, and Yousef Abu Kwaik* 4 5 1Department of Microbiology and Immunology and Center for Predictive Medicine, 6 College of Medicine, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, 40202; 2Department 7 Microbiology University of Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia 8 9 10 Running title: aroB and aroE of Legionella 11 12
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تاریخ انتشار 2015