Susceptibility to severe streptococcal sepsis: Use of a large set of isogenic mouse lines to study genetic and environmental factors

Genes and Immunity

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 404-415

  Aziz, R K ^a,b,c   Kansal, R ^b,c   Abdeltawab, N F ^b,c   Rowe, S L ^b   Su, Y ^b,c   Carrigan, D ^b,c   Nooh, M M ^b,c   Attia, R R ^b,c   Brannen, C ^b,c   Gardner, L A ^b,c   Lu, L ^c   Williams, R W ^c   Kotb, M ^b,c  

^a CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL GENETICS; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; COVARIANCE; DISEASE MODEL; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEREDITY; MALE; MORTALITY; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SEPSIS; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP A; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; SURVIVAL;

ANIMALS; BACTEREMIA; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; ENVIRONMENT; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MUS;

EID: 34547520746     PISSN: 14664879     EISSN: 14765470     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.gene.6364402     Document Type: Article

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