Murine model of infection by Tropheryma whipplei

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 74, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 4915-4917

  Genot, Séverine ^a   Stein, Andreas ^a   Lepidi, Hubert ^a   Ihrig, Melanie ^b   Raoult, Didier ^a   Mege, Jean Louis ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CELL PROTECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRANULOMATOUS INFLAMMATION; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; INNATE IMMUNITY; INTESTINE LIPODYSTROPHY; LIVER GRANULOMA; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; TROPHERYMA WHIPPELII;

ACTINOMYCETALES; ACTINOMYCETALES INFECTIONS; ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; GRANULOMA; LIVER; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, SCID; WHIPPLE DISEASE;

EID: 33746593312     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00283-06     Document Type: Article

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