Sensitivity of a standard host resistance assay using Streptococcus agalactiae for assessing exposure to immunotoxicants in wild cotton rats (Sigmodon hispidus)

Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 540-545

  Jones, L C ^a   Lochmiller, R L ^a   Sinclair, J A ^a   Morton, R H ^a  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DEXAMETHASONE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; COLONY FORMING UNIT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; IMMUNOTOXICITY; INFECTION RESISTANCE; LD 50; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MALNUTRITION; RAT; RISK ASSESSMENT; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DEXAMETHASONE; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, IMMUNOLOGIC; EVALUATION STUDIES; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; LETHAL DOSE 50; RATS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGMODONTINAE; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; SURVIVAL RATE;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM; GOSSYPIUM THURBERI; MAMMALIA; RODENTIA; SIGMODON HISPIDUS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0034075106     PISSN: 00904341     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002449910070     Document Type: Article

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