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The figure represents two general strategies that intracellular bacteria deploy to survive within amoebas. They can escape from the phagosome (Fig 1A) or stay within the phagosomal vacuole but modify it (Fig 1B). Green, intranuclear bacteria; yellow, bacteria that escape into the cytosol; blue, carried Burkholderia; purple, B. bronchiseptica; red, L. pneumophila.
