Toxin-deficient mutants of Bacillus anthracis are lethal in a murine model for pulmonary anthrax

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 74, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 6067-6074

  Heninger, Sara ^a   Drysdale, Melissa ^a   Lovchik, Julie ^a   Hutt, Julie ^b   Lipscomb, Mary F ^a   Koehler, Theresa M ^c   Lyons, C Rick ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^b LOVELACE RESPIRATORY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL TOXIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTHRAX; ARTICLE; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACTERIAL SPORE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LD 50; LETHAL DOSE; LETHALITY; LUNG INFECTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN; TOXIN SYNTHESIS;

ANIMALS; ANTHRAX; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACTERIAL CAPSULES; BACTERIAL TOXINS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; GENES, LETHAL; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; SPORES, BACTERIAL; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 33750487168     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00719-06     Document Type: Article

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