Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, January 11th, 2005
"Coxiella burnetii undergoes a poorly defined developmental cycle that generates morphologically distinct small-cell variants (SCV) and large-cell variants (LCV). We developed a model to study C. burnetii morphogenesis that uses Vero cells synchronously infected with homogeneous SCV (Nine Mile strain in phase II) harvested from aged infected cell cultures," scientists in the United States report.
"A time course transmission electron microscopic analysis over 8 days of intracellular growth was evaluated in conjunction with one-step growth...
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