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Gaining an appreciation of the interplay between intracellular pathogens and their host cells requires the exploitation of an ever-broadening range of techniques. These techniques are bundled under the blanket term “Cell Biology”, but are in reality a bastardized mixture of biochemistry, molecular biology and physiology. This chapter describes general protocols and specific experiments that have been developed and applied to several different intracellular pathogens.
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Russell, D.G. et al. (2000). Cell Biological Approaches to the Study of Intracellular Pathogens: Motility, Invasion, Secretion and Vesicular Trafficking. In: Tschudi, C., Pearce, E.J. (eds) Biology of Parasitism. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-4622-8_10
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