IAI FigSearch
Home Help [Feedback] [For Subscribers] [Archive] [Search] [Contents]
This Article
Right arrow Full Text
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in PubMed
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowReprints and Permissions
Right arrow Copyright Information
Right arrow Books from ASM Press
Right arrow MicrobeWorld
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via HighWire
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Channon, J. Y.
Right arrow Articles by Kasper, L. H.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow PubMed Citation
Right arrow Articles by Channon, J. Y.
Right arrow Articles by Kasper, L. H.

 Previous Article  |  Next Article 

Infection and Immunity, August 2000, p. 4822-4826, Vol. 68, No. 8
0019-9567/00/$04.00+0
Copyright © 2000, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Differential Infectivity and Division of Toxoplasma gondii in Human Peripheral Blood Leukocytes

Jacqueline Y. Channon,1,* Rosanne M. Seguin,2,dagger and Lloyd H. Kasper2

Departments of Microbiology1 and Medicine,2 Dartmouth Medical School, Lebanon, New Hampshire 03756

Received 31 January 2000/Returned for modification 30 March 2000/Accepted 11 May 2000

When tachyzoites were incubated with human peripheral blood leukocytes in vitro, more monocytes and dendritic cells than neutrophils or lymphocytes were infected. Although tachyzoites were able to divide in each of these cell types, monocytes and dendritic cells were more permissive to rapid tachyzoite division than neutrophils or lymphocytes.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Microbiology, 648E Borwell, DHMC, Lebanon, NH 03756. Phone: (603) 650-8786. Fax: (603) 650-6841. E-mail: Jacqueline.Channon{at}dartmouth.edu.

dagger Present address: Department of Neuroimmunology, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 2B4.

Infection and Immunity, August 2000, p. 4822-4826, Vol. 68, No. 8
0019-9567/00/$04.00+0
Copyright © 2000, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


This article has been cited by other articles:



Home Help [Feedback] [For Subscribers] [Archive] [Search] [Contents]
J. Bacteriol. J. Virol. Eukaryot. Cell
Microbiol. Mol. Biol. Rev. Clin. Vaccine Immunol. All ASM Journals

Copyright © 2000 by the American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.