Culture and biological activity of Propionibacterium acnes

Infection

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 247-249

  Schlecht, S ^a   Freudenberg, M A ^a   Galanos, C ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF IMMUNOBIOLOGY AND EPIGENETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDOTOXIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; HYPERSENSITIVITY REACTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROPIONIBACTERIUM ACNES; SENSITIZATION;

ANIMALS; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; CULTURE MEDIA; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HYPERSENSITIVITY; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PROPIONIBACTERIUM ACNES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 0030835877     PISSN: 03008126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01713155     Document Type: Article

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