Avoiding artifacts in the infant rat model for bacterial meningitis: Use of Sangur test strips for the rapid quantification of blood contamination in cerebrospinal fluid

Medical Microbiology and Immunology

Volumn 185, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 27-30

  Vogel, U ^a   Steinmetz, I ^a   Frosch, M ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bacterial meningitis; Blood contamination; Cerebrospinal fluid; Infant rat; Sangur test strips

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONTAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BACTERIA; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; EVALUATION STUDIES; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RATS, WISTAR; REAGENT STRIPS;

EID: 0030007547     PISSN: 03008584     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004300050011     Document Type: Article

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