Pneumocystis carinii infection in transgenic B cell-deficient mice

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 173, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 1034-1037

  Marcotte, Harold ^b   Lévesque, Denise ^b   Delanay, Kathleen ^b   Bourgeault, Andrée ^b   De La Durantaye, Roger ^b   Brochu, Steve ^b   Lavoie, Marc C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFECTION CONTROL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PNEUMOCYSTIS CARINII; PNEUMOCYSTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSGENE;

EID: 0030028656     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/173.4.1034     Document Type: Article

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