Vertical transmission of Treponema pallidum to various litters and generations of guinea pigs

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 179, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1206-1212

  Wicher, Konrad ^a,b   Baughn, Robert E ^a,b   Abbruscato, Frank ^a,b   Wicher, Victoria ^a,b  

^a WADSWORTH CENTER   (United States)

^b MICHAEL E DEBAKEY VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONGENITAL SYPHILIS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FETUS; GUINEA PIG; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PLACENTAL TRANSFER; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GUINEA PIGS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; RABBITS; SYPHILIS; SYPHILIS, CONGENITAL; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM;

EID: 0032969712     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/314718     Document Type: Article

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