SCID mouse model for lethal Q fever

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 71, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 4717-4723

  Andoh, Masako ^a   Naganawa, Takashi ^a   Hotta, Akitoyo ^a   Yamaguchi, Tsuyoshi ^a   Fukushi, Hideto ^a   Masegi, Toshiaki ^a   Hirai, Katsuya ^a  

^a GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COXIELLA BURNETII; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; Q FEVER; SCID MOUSE; SURVIVAL RATE;

ANIMALS; CHRONIC DISEASE; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; COXIELLA BURNETII; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; MICE; MICE, SCID; Q FEVER;

EID: 0041744006     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.71.8.4717-4723.2003     Document Type: Article

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