Evaluation of Helicobacter hepaticus bacterial shedding in fostered and sex-segregated C57BL/6 mice

Comparative Medicine

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 515-522

  Crisler Roberts, Robin ^a,c   Ge, Zhongming ^b   Kearney, Michael T ^a   Singletary, Kem B ^a   Fox, James G ^b   Roberts, Christopher S ^a   Baker, David G ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; CECUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL MOUSE; FEMALE; HELICOBACTER HEPATICUS; HELICOBACTER INFECTION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INFECTION CONTROL; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDICTION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL HOUSING; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; C57BL MOUSE; EVALUATION; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; FECES; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; RANDOMIZATION; RODENT DISEASE; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, LABORATORY; FECES; FEMALE; HELICOBACTER HEPATICUS; HELICOBACTER INFECTIONS; HOUSING, ANIMAL; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PREGNANCY; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RODENT DISEASES; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 33644919976     PISSN: 15320820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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