Characteristic morphology of intracellular microcolonies of Legionella oakridgensis OR-10

Yuta Takekawa,a,* Mitsumasa Saito,a Changle Wang,a Tian Qin,b Midori Ogawa,c Takaaki Kanemaru,d Shin-ichi Yoshidaa aDepartment of Bacteriology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, 812 - 8582, Japan.

bNational Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention and State Key Laboratory for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, P.O. Box 5, Changping, Beijing 102206, People’s Republic of China.

cDepartment of Microbiology, School of Medicine, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka, 807 - 8555, Japan.

dDepartment of Morphology Core Unit, Kyushu University Hospital, Fukuoka, 812 - 8582, Japan.

*Present address: Mie Prefecture Health and Environment Research Institute, 3684-11 Sakura-machi, Yokkaichi, Mie 512-1211, Japan

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Canadian Journal of Microbiology, 2012, 58:(2) 179-183, 10.1139/w11-126

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Live Legionella pneumophila induces MUC5AC production by airway epithelial cells independently of intracellular invasion

Yoshitomo Morinaga,a Katsunori Yanagihara,a Nobuko Araki,a Yohei Migiyama,a,b Kentaro Nagaoka,a,b Yosuke Harada,a,b Koichi Yamada,a,b Hiroo Hasegawa,a Tomoya Nishino,b Koichi Izumikawa,b Hiroshi Kakeya,b Yoshihiro Yamamoto,b Shigeru Kohno,b,c Shimeru Kamihiraa aDepartment of Laboratory Medicine, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, 1-7-1, Sakamoto, Nagasaki, 852-8501, Japan.

bSecond Department of Internal Medicine, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan.

cGlobal COE Program, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan.

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