Tetracycline therapy targets intracellular bacteria in the filarial nematode Litomosoides sigmodontis and results in filarial infertility

Journal of Clinical Investigation

Volumn 103, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 11-18

  Hoerauf, Achim ^a   Nissen Pähle, Kerstin ^a   Schmetz, Christel ^a   Henkle Dührsen, Kim ^a   Blaxter, Mark L ^b   Büttner, Dietrich W ^a   Gallin, Michaela Y ^a   Al Qaoud, Khaled M ^a   Lucius, Richard ^c   Fleischer, Bernhard ^a  

^a BERNHARD NOCHT INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTISERUM; CIPROFLOXACIN; DNA; GENTAMICIN; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 60; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; RIBOSOME RNA; TETRACYCLINE;

ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRICETIDAE; FILARIA; GENE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFERTILITY; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LITOMOSOIDES; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 0345490803     PISSN: 00219738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1172/JCI4768     Document Type: Article

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