Development of a rapid method for determining the infectious dose (ID) 50 of Orientia tsutsugamushi in a scrub typhus mouse model for the evaluation of vaccine candidates

Vaccine

Volumn 21, Issue 31, 2003, Pages 4550-4554

  Chan, T C ^a   Jiang, J ^a   Temenak, J J ^a,b   Richards, A L ^a  

^a NAVAL MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b CENTER FOR DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Infectious dose; Orientia tsutsugamushi; Scrub typhus

Indexed keywords

VACCINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; IMMUNITY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN PRODUCTION; INFECTION; INOCULATION; LD 50; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCRUB TYPHUS;

EID: 0142199973     PISSN: 0264410X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0264-410X(03)00505-X     Document Type: Article

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