Experimental Yersinia infection of human synovial cells: persistence of live bacteria and generation of bacterial antigen deposits including "ghosts," nucleic acid-free bacterial rods.

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Published in Infect Immun on April 01, 1996

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H I Huppertz1, J Heesemann

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1: Children's Hospital, University of Würzburg, Germany.

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