[Associations of the soil amoeba Hartmannella rhysodes with the bacterial causative agents of plague and pseudotuberculosis in an experiment].

Some aspects of relationships between soil ameba and the causative agents of plague and pseudotuberculosis, capable of forming natural associations, are considered. Ameba can phagocytose bacteria causing plague and pseudotuberculosis. Cases of the preservation of individual bacterial cells at the stationary phase and in precysts of amebae have been registered.