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- From: zador-anthony@CS.YALE.EDU (Tony Zador)
- Subject: Re: cells inside of cells?
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- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 19:32:48 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep15.181239.5679@das.harvard.edu> love@geophysics.harvard.edu writes:
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- >Are there any cells that live inside of other cells?
- >(Not counting viruses!)
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- Yes, and several species of intracellular parasite cause disease.
- Examples include Chlamydia (a genus that inlucdes a common venereal
- disease) and Rickettsia (a genus that includes typhus--not typhoid
- fever, the causative agents of which are Salmonella typhi and
- enteritidis--and the tick-borne Rocky Mountain spotted fever).
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- Tony Zador
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