Virulent and avirulent Rhodococcus equi infection in T-cell deficient athymic nude mice: Pathologic, bacteriologic and immunologic responses

FEMS Immunology and Medical Microbiology

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 251-262

  Madarame, Hiroo ^a   Takai, Shinji ^a   Matsumoto, Chizuko ^a   Minamiyama, Kazuko ^a   Sasaki, Yukako ^a   Tsubaki, Shiro ^a   Hasegawa, Yoshihisa ^a   Nakane, Akio ^b  

^a KITASATO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HIROSAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

nude mouse; pathogenesis; Rhodococcus equi

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRANULOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUDE MOUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHODOCOCCUS; RHODOCOCCUS EQUI; VIRULENCE;

ACTINOMYCETALES INFECTIONS; ADOPTIVE TRANSFER; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; GRANULOMA; LIVER; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, NUDE; NECROSIS; RHODOCOCCUS EQUI; SPLEEN; SPLENOMEGALY; T-LYMPHOCYTES; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0031127086     PISSN: 09288244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0928-8244(97)00013-8     Document Type: Article

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