Serial propagation of the microsporidian Enterocytozoon bieneusi of human origin in immunocompromised rodents

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 74, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 4424-4429

  Feng, Xiaochuan ^a   Akiyoshi, Donna E ^a   Sheoran, Abhineet ^a   Singh, Inderpal ^a   Hanawalt, Joel ^a   Zhang, Quanshun ^a   Widmer, Giovanni ^a   Tzipori, Saul ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEXAMETHASONE; GAMMA INTERFERON ANTIBODY; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROCYTOZOON; FECES ANALYSIS; GERBIL; GERMFREE ANIMAL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; INFECTIOUS DIARRHEA; INTESTINE; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MICROSPORIDIOSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; PERSISTENT INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOAN SPORE; RAT; RAT STRAIN; SCID MOUSE; WASTING SYNDROME;

ADULT; ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENTEROCYTOZOON; GERBILLINAE; GERM-FREE LIFE; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, SCID; MICROSPORIDIOSIS; RATS; RATS, NUDE; SERIAL PASSAGE; SPORES, FUNGAL;

EID: 33746601808     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00456-06     Document Type: Article

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