Sleeping with the Enemy: How Intracellular Pathogens Cope with a Macrophage Lifestyle

Emily P. Thi; Ulrike Lambertz; Neil E. Reiner

doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.1002551

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Sleeping with the Enemy: How Intracellular Pathogens Cope with a Macrophage Lifestyle

Emily P. Thi ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Emily P. Thi, Ulrike Lambertz

Affiliation Department of Medicine (Division of Infectious Diseases), University of British Columbia, Faculties of Medicine and Science, and Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute (VCHRI), Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Ulrike Lambertz ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Emily P. Thi, Ulrike Lambertz

Affiliation Department of Medicine (Division of Infectious Diseases), University of British Columbia, Faculties of Medicine and Science, and Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute (VCHRI), Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Neil E. Reiner

* E-mail: ethan@mail.ubc.ca

Affiliations Department of Medicine (Division of Infectious Diseases), University of British Columbia, Faculties of Medicine and Science, and Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute (VCHRI), Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Department of Microbiology and Immunology (Division of Infectious Diseases), University of British Columbia, Faculties of Medicine and Science, and Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute (VCHRI), Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Sleeping with the Enemy: How Intracellular Pathogens Cope with a Macrophage Lifestyle

Emily P. Thi,
Ulrike Lambertz,
Neil E. Reiner

Published: March 22, 2012
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1002551

About the Authors

Emily P. Thi

Contributed equally to this work with: Emily P. Thi, Ulrike Lambertz

Affiliation Department of Medicine (Division of Infectious Diseases), University of British Columbia, Faculties of Medicine and Science, and Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute (VCHRI), Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Ulrike Lambertz

Contributed equally to this work with: Emily P. Thi, Ulrike Lambertz

Neil E. Reiner

* E-mail: ethan@mail.ubc.ca

Affiliations Department of Medicine (Division of Infectious Diseases), University of British Columbia, Faculties of Medicine and Science, and Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute (VCHRI), Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Department of Microbiology and Immunology (Division of Infectious Diseases), University of British Columbia, Faculties of Medicine and Science, and Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute (VCHRI), Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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