Lack of an effect of antibiotic treatment on prolonged detection of chlamydial DNA in murine genital tract infection

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 51, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 2646-2648

  Reeves, Dawn M ^a   Nagarajan, Uma ^a   O'Connell, Catherine ^a   Andrews Jr , Charles W ^b   Darville, Toni ^a  

^a ARKANSAS CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Rockdale Pathology Partners   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; DOXYCYCLINE; PLASMID DNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; ERADICATION THERAPY; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENITAL TRACT INFECTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDIA MURIDARUM; DNA, FUNGAL; DOXYCYCLINE; FEMALE; GENITAL DISEASES, FEMALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION TECHNIQUES; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 34447286621     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00231-07     Document Type: Article

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