Strain-related virulence of the dominant Mycobacterium tuberculosis strain in the Canadian province of Manitoba

Tuberculosis

Volumn 84, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 317-326

  Petrelli, D ^a,b   Sharma, M Kaushal ^a   Wolfe, J ^a   Al Azem, A ^b   Hershfield, E ^c   Kabani, A ^a,b,c  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^c HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aerosol infection; BALB c mice; C3H mice; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; Pathogenicity; Virulence

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE INFECTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; COLONY FORMING UNIT; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INFLAMMATORY INFILTRATE; LUNG PARENCHYMA; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MOUSE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES COMPARISON; TISSUE SECTION;

ANIMALS; COLONY-FORMING UNITS ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MANITOBA; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C3H; MODELS, ANIMAL; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY; VIRULENCE;

EID: 3042827204     PISSN: 14729792     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tube.2004.01.001     Document Type: Article

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