Different strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis cause various spectrums of disease in the rabbit model of tuberculosis

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 71, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 6004-6011

  Manabe, Yukari C ^a,c   Dannenberg Jr , Arthur M ^a,b,c   Tyagi, Sandeep K ^a   Hatem, Christine L ^a   Yoder, Mark ^a   Woolwine, Samuel C ^a   Zook, Bernard C ^e   Pitt, M Louise M ^d   Bishai, William R ^a,c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b The Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d US Army Medical Research   (United States)

^e GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; GENOTYPE; HOST RESISTANCE; INHALATION; LUNG CAVITATION; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MORTALITY; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS CDC1551 STRAIN; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS ERDMAN STRAIN; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS H37RV STRAIN; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TISSUE REPAIR;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; LUNG; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; RABBITS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0141668958     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.71.10.6004-6011.2003     Document Type: Article

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