Development and application of an oral challenge mouse model for studying Clostridium perfringens type D infection

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 75, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 4282-4288

  Fernandez Miyakawa, Mariano E ^a   Sayeed, Sameera ^b   Fisher, Derek J ^b,d   Poon, Rachael ^c   Adams, Vicki ^c   Rood, Julian I ^c   McClane, Bruce A ^b,c   Saputo, Julian ^a   Uzal, Francisco A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL TOXIN; EPSILON TOXIN ANTIBODY; TOXIN ANTIBODY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACUTE KIDNEY TUBULE NECROSIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; BRAIN EDEMA; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS TYPE D; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVULSION; DEATH; DEPRESSION; DISEASE MODEL; EXCITABILITY; INTESTINE DISTENSION; LETHALITY; LUNG EDEMA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PASSIVE IMMUNIZATION; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; TOXEMIA;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; BACTERIAL TOXINS; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DUODENUM; ENTEROTOXEMIA; IMMUNIZATION, PASSIVE; INTUBATION, GASTROINTESTINAL; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C;

EID: 34548497440     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00562-07     Document Type: Article

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