Pathology of experimental pneumonic plague produced by fraction 1-positive and fraction 1-negative Yersinia pestis in African green monkeys (Cercopithecus aethiops)

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 120, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 156-163

  Davis, Kelly J ^a,b   Fritz, David L ^a   Pitt, Margaret L ^a   Welkos, Susan L ^a   Worsham, Patricia L ^a   Friedlander, Arthur M ^a  

^a Dept of Immunol and Molec Biology Bldg 1425 U States Army Med R   (United States)

^b UNITED STATES ARMY MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PLAGUE; YERSINIA PESTIS;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMALS; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MONKEY DISEASES; PLAGUE;

EID: 0030066851     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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