Rapid Way to Identify the Cilia-Associated Respiratory Bacillus: Tracheal Mucosal Scraping with a Modified Microwave Steiner Silver Impregnation

Laboratory Animal Science

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 113-115

  Medina, Leticia V ^a,c   Chladny, Jane ^b   Fortman, Jeffrey D ^a   Artwohl, James E ^a   Bunte, Ralph M ^a   Bennett, B T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; MICROWAVE RADIATION; NONHUMAN; RAT; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; RESPIRATORY TRACT MUCOSA; SILVER IMPREGNATION;

ANIMALS; BACILLUS; CILIA; FEMALE; MICROWAVES; MUCOUS MEMBRANE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES; RODENT DISEASES; SILVER STAINING; TRACHEA;

EID: 0029874847     PISSN: 00236764     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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