The emerging human pathogen Photorhabdus asymbiotica is a facultative intracellular bacterium and induces apoptosis of macrophage-like cells.

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Published in Infect Immun on December 15, 2008

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S C P Costa1, P A Girard, M Brehélin, R Zumbihl

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1: UMR1133 Laboratoire EMIP, Université Montpellier II, Montpellier, France.

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