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Applied and Environmental Microbiology, August 2008, p. 5224-5227, Vol. 74, No. 16
0099-2240/08/$08.00+0 doi:10.1128/AEM.00621-08
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Florian Dietrich,1,
Katja V. Schmidt,1
Patrick O. Kaiser,1
Heinz Schwarz,2
Andrea Schäfer,1 and
Volkhard A. J. Kempf1*
Institut für Medizinische Mikrobiologie und Hygiene, Eberhard-Karls-Universität, Elfriede-Aulhorn-Str. 6, 72076 Tübingen, Germany,1 Max-Planck-Institut für Entwicklungsbiologie, Elektronenmikroskopie, Spemannstr. 35, 72076 Tübingen, Germany2
Received 14 March 2008/ Accepted 10 June 2008
Human- and animal-pathogenic Bartonella species are fastidious and slow-growing bacteria difficult to isolate and cultivate. We describe a novel, easy-to-prepare liquid medium for the fast and reliable growth of several Bartonella spp. that does not affect bacterial protein expression patterns or interactions with host cells.
Published ahead of print on 20 June 2008.
T.R. and F.D. contributed equally to this work.
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