Helicobacter bilis/Helicobacter rodentium Co-Infection Associated with Diarrhea in a Colony of scid Mice

Laboratory Animal Science

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 455-459

  Shomer, Nirah H ^a,b   Dangler, Charles A ^a   Marini, Robert P ^a   Fox, James G ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BACTERIAL DNA; BISMUTH; COTRIMOXAZOLE; METRONIDAZOLE;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; COLITIS; COMBINED IMMUNODEFICIENCY; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL INFECTION; HELICOBACTER; HELICOBACTER BILIS; HELICOBACTER RODENTIUM; MALE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; COLON; DIARRHEA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FECES; FEMALE; HELICOBACTER; HELICOBACTER INFECTIONS; HYPERTROPHY; MALE; MASSACHUSETTS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, SCID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RODENT DISEASES;

EID: 0031772881     PISSN: 00236764     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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