Acanthamoeba castellanii - Applied and Environmental Microbiology

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Jan 11, 2008 - Legionella pneumophila and a Free-Living Amoeba. (Acanthamoeba castellanii). Akira Ohno,1* Naoyuki Kato,2 Ryota Sakamoto,1,3 Soichiro ...
APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY, July 2008, p. 4585–4588 0099-2240/08/$08.00⫹0 doi:10.1128/AEM.00083-08 Copyright © 2008, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Vol. 74, No. 14

Temperature-Dependent Parasitic Relationship between Legionella pneumophila and a Free-Living Amoeba (Acanthamoeba castellanii)䌤 Akira Ohno,1* Naoyuki Kato,2 Ryota Sakamoto,1,3 Soichiro Kimura,1 and Keizo Yamaguchi1 Departments of Microbiology and Infectious Disease1 and Chemistry,2 Faculty of Medicine, Toho University, Tokyo, and Department of Public Health, Kyoto University School of Medicine, Kyoto,3 Japan Received 11 January 2008/Accepted 19 May 2008

We analyzed the effects of temperature on the interaction of Legionella pneumophila with Acanthamoeba castellanii. At