A naturally occurring rabbit model of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli-Induced disease

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 186, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1682-1686

  García, Alexis ^a   Marini, Robert P ^a   Feng, Yan ^a   Vitsky, Allison ^a   Knox, Kimberly A ^a   Taylor, Nancy S ^a   Schauer, David B ^a   Fox, James G ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VEROTOXIN 1;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; DIARRHEA; DISEASE MODEL; EPIDEMIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FIBRIN CLOT; HEMOLYTIC UREMIC SYNDROME; HEMORRHAGIC COLITIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; KIDNEY TUBULE NECROSIS; MALE; NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLIFERATIVE GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; RABBIT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; SUDDEN DEATH; SYSTEMIC DISEASE;

ANIMALS; CECUM; DIARRHEA; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; HEMOLYTIC-UREMIC SYNDROME; HUMANS; RABBITS;

EID: 0036891027     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/345371     Document Type: Article

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