Failure to infect congenitally immunodeficient SCID and NUDE mice with Rhinosporidium seeberi

Medical Mycology

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 393-395

  Arseculeratne, S N ^a,b   Hussein, F N ^a   Atapattu, D N ^a   Pathmanathan, K ^a  

^a SCHOOL OF PHYSICS   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PERADENIYA   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

Pathogenicity; Rhinosporidium seeberi; SCID NUDE mice

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNGUS; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; INFECTION RESISTANCE; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUDE MOUSE; PATHOGENICITY; RHINOSPORIDIUM; SCID MOUSE; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ANIMALIA; FUNGI; MUS MUSCULUS; RHINOSPORIDIUM SEEBERI;

EID: 0033791990     PISSN: 13693786     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/714030960     Document Type: Article

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