Susceptibility of aged mice to Staphylococcus aureus keratitis

Current Eye Research

Volumn 29, Issue 4-5, 2004, Pages 269-275

  Girgis, Dalia O ^a   Sloop, Gregory D ^b   Reed, Julian M ^a   O'Callaghan, Richard J ^a,b,c  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIV HLTH SCI C   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c LSU EYE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Keratitis; Staphylococcus aureus

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; KERATITIS; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLIT LAMP; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION;

AGING; ANIMALS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; CORNEAL STROMA; CORNEAL ULCER; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; EYE INFECTIONS, BACTERIAL; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED A; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEUTROPHILS; PEROXIDASE; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 11844290729     PISSN: 02713683     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02713680490516783     Document Type: Article

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