BALB/c and C57BI/6 mice infected with virulent Burkholderia pseudomallei provide contrasting animal models for the acute and chronic forms of human melioidosis

Microbial Pathogenesis

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 269-275

  Leakey, Alison K ^a   Ulett, Glen C ^a   Hirst, Robert G ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

BALB c; Burkholderia pseudomallei; C57BI 6; Melioidosis; Resistance; Susceptibility

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BURKHOLDERIA PSEUDOMALLEI; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; INFECTION RESISTANCE; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; MALE; MELIOIDOSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PERITONEUM EXUDATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ANIMAL; BACTERIAL COUNT; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; C57BL MOUSE; DISEASE MODEL; HUMAN; LD 50; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BURKHOLDERIA; BURKHOLDERIA PSEUDOMALLEI; NEGIBACTERIA;

ANIMALS; BURKHOLDERIA PSEUDOMALLEI; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LETHAL DOSE 50; MALE; MELIOIDOSIS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL;

EID: 0031596831     PISSN: 08824010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/mpat.1997.0179     Document Type: Article

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