Entamoeba histolytica – tumor necrosis factor: a fatal attraction

Ankri, Serge

Entamoeba histolytica – tumor necrosis factor: a fatal attraction

Authors:

Serge Ankri

doi: 10.15698/mic2015.07.216
Volume 2, pp. 216 to 218, published 03/07/2015.

Affiliations:

Department of Molecular Microbiology, Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.

Keywords:

Entamoeba, inflammation, TNF, virulence, BspA proteins

Corresponding Author(s):

Serge Ankri, sankri@tx.technion.ac.il

Conflict of interest statement:

The author declares that there are no conflicts of interest.

Please cite this article as:

Serge Ankri (2015). Entamoeba histolytica – tumor necrosis factor: a fatal attraction. Microbial Cell 2(7): 216-218.

© 2015 Ankri et al. This is an open-access article released under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license, which allows the unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are acknowledged.

Abstract:

In this article, the author comments on the study “In Entamoeba histolytica, a BspA family protein is required for chemotaxis toward tumour necrosis factor” by Silvestre et al. (Microbial Cell, 2015).