Cell Biological Approaches to the Study of Intracellular Pathogens: Motility, Invasion, Secretion and Vesicular Trafficking

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.