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Activity outside the host
An elementary body of the intracellular symbiont Protochlamydia amoebophila, infecting its Acanthamoeba host, was captured by scanning electron microscopy. Sixt et al. report on the metabolism and the effect of nutrient availability on infectivity of this extracellular stage that has long been considered metabolically inert. See Sixt et al.
Image Credit: Jacqueline Montanaro
Citation: (2013) PLoS Pathogens Issue Image | Vol. 9(8) August 2013. PLoS Pathog 9(8): ev09.i08. https://doi.org/10.1371/image.ppat.v09.i08
Published: August 29, 2013
Copyright: © 2013 Sixt et al.. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
An elementary body of the intracellular symbiont Protochlamydia amoebophila, infecting its Acanthamoeba host, was captured by scanning electron microscopy. Sixt et al. report on the metabolism and the effect of nutrient availability on infectivity of this extracellular stage that has long been considered metabolically inert. See Sixt et al.
Image Credit: Jacqueline Montanaro