Mechanisms of clearance of Treponema pallidum from the CSF in a nonhuman primate model

Neurology

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 957-961

  Marra, Christina M ^a,b   Castro, C D ^a   Kuller, L ^a   Dukes, A C ^a   Centurion Lara, A ^a   Morton, W R ^a   Lukehart, S A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; NEUROSYPHILIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM;

EID: 0031714726     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.51.4.957     Document Type: Article

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