But in 2008, Mukherjee stumbled across a new and much faster way to cause intracellular mayhem. Studying bacterial interactions with actin is still throwing up new mysteries. These microbes all enjoy ...

Only during the last decade have the technical difficulties of extracting intracellular enzymes from the bacterial cell been overcome; at the same time, the usefulness of the washed suspension ...

First described for rickettsiae, the plaque assay methods have been adapted to other intracellular bacterial pathogens. There is no single model, thus each assay should be refined depending on the ...