Primary Mycobacterium avium complex infections correlate with lowered cellular immune reactivity in Matschie's tree kangaroos (Dendrolagus matschiei)

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 178, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1719-1725

  Montali, Richard J ^b   Bush, Mitchell ^c   Cromie, Ruth ^a   Holland, Steven M ^c   Maslow, Joel N ^c   Worley, Michael ^c   Witebsky, Frank G ^c   Phillips, Terry M ^c  

^a WILDFOWL AND WETLANDS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; KANGAROO; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, ZOO; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; LYMPHOCYTE CULTURE TEST, MIXED; MACROPODIDAE; MALE; MAMMALS; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM COMPLEX; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TUBERCULOSIS; VIRGINIA;

EID: 0031768658     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/314517     Document Type: Article

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