Mycobacterium marinum causes both long-term subclinical infection and acute disease in the leopard frog (Rana pipiens)

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 767-773

  Ramakrishnan, Lalita ^a   Valdivia, Raphael H ^a   McKerrow, James H ^b,c   Falkow, Stanley ^a,d  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUXOTROPHIC MUTANT; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; CHRONIC DISEASE; CHRONIC GRANULOMATOUS DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FROG; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INOCULATION; LETHALITY; MALE; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM MARINUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0031018261     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.65.2.767-773.1997     Document Type: Article

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