Hyperinfectivity of human-passaged Vibrio cholerae can be modeled by growth in the infant mouse

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 73, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 6674-6679

  Alam, Ashfaqul ^a,b   LaRocque, Regina C ^b,d   Harris, Jason B ^b,d   Vanderspurt, Cecily ^b,d   Ryan, Edward T ^b,c,d   Qadri, Firdausi ^a   Calderwood, Stephen B ^b,d  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH   (Bangladesh)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM PILUS; CHOLERA; EPIDEMIC; FECES; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CHOLERA; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; INTESTINES; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; VIRULENCE;

EID: 25444500703     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.73.10.6674-6679.2005     Document Type: Article

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