The intravenous model of murine tuberculosis is less pathogenic than the aerogenic model owing to a more rapid induction of systemic immunity

Scandinavian Journal of Immunology

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 362-366

  Cardona, P J ^a,b   Cooper, A ^c   Luquin M ^b   Ariza, A ^d   Filipo, F ^d   Orme, I M ^c   Ausina, V ^a,b  

^a Serveis de Microbiologia   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI GERMANS TRIAS I PUJOL   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^d Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON;

ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; GRANULOMATOUS INFLAMMATION; IMMUNOSTIMULATION; INOCULATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUBERCULOSIS;

ADMINISTRATION, INHALATION; AEROSOLS; ANIMALS; CYTOKINES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; GRANULOMA, RESPIRATORY TRACT; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; LUNG; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; RNA, MESSENGER; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 0033006829     PISSN: 03009475     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3083.1999.00522.x     Document Type: Article

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