Experimental infection of human volunteers with Haemophilus ducreyi does not confer protection against subsequent challenge

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 179, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1283-1287

  Al Tawfiq, Jaffar A ^a,b   Palmer, Katherine L ^a,b   Chen, Cheng Yen ^a,b   Haley, Jennifer C ^a,b   Katz, Barry P ^a,b   Hood, Antoinette F ^a,b   Spinola, Stanley M ^a,b,c  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^c Emerson Hall ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION; FEMALE; HAEMOPHILUS DUCREYI; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; INOCULATION; LYMPHOCYTE TRANSFORMATION; MALE; PAPULE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUSTULE; REINFECTION;

ADULT; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; CHANCROID; FEMALE; HAEMOPHILUS DUCREYI; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MALE; SKIN;

EID: 0032969994     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/314732     Document Type: Article

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