Growth of Rickettsia prowazeki in enucleated cells.
Rickettsia prowazeki (Breinl strain) was capable of infecting, and of growing in, enucleated L or chicken embryo cells Thus, neither of these two processes in the rickettsial infection cycle required the concomitant, continued presence of the host cell nucleus.
D002467:Cell Nucleus; D007739:L Cells; D012283:Rickettsia prowazekii / Q000254:growth & development*