Lethal infection of C3H/HeJ and C3H/SCID mice with an isolate of Leptospira interrogans serovar Copenhageni

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 73, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 7014-7017

  Nally, Jarlath E ^a   Fishbein, Michael C ^b   Blanco, David R ^a   Lovett, Michael A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MODEL; KIDNEY TUBULE; LEPTOSPIRA INTERROGANS; LEPTOSPIROSIS; LETHALITY; LIVER; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BACTEREMIA; KIDNEY; LEPTOSPIRA INTERROGANS; LEPTOSPIROSIS; LIVER; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; MICE, SCID;

EID: 25444463830     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.73.10.7014-7017.2005     Document Type: Article

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