Defining inoculation conditions for the mouse model of ascending urinary tract infection that avoid immediate vesicoureteral reflux yet produce renal and bladder infection

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 173, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 746-749

  Johnson, James R ^a,b   Brown, Jennifer J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIV OF MINNESOTA HOSP AND CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLADDER DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUTHANASIA; FEMALE; INFUSION; INOCULATION; KIDNEY INFECTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VESICOURETERAL REFLUX;

EID: 0030044201     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/173.3.746     Document Type: Article

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