Enhanced mortality despite control of lung infection in mice aerogenically infected with a Mycobacterium tuberculosis mce1 operon mutant

Microbes and Infection

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1285-1290

  Lima, Patricia ^a   Sidders, Ben ^a   Morici, Lisa ^a   Reader, Rachel ^b   Senaratne, Ryan ^a   Casali, Nicola ^a   Riley, Lee W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

C57BL 6 mouse; Latent tuberculosis infection; mce1 operon; Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HOST; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; LUNG; LUNG INFECTION; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; MORTALITY; MOUSE; MUTANT; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; LIVER; LUNG; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; OPERON; SPLEEN; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TUBERCULOSIS;

BACILLI (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MUS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 35148834305     PISSN: 12864579     EISSN: 1769714X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.micinf.2007.05.020     Document Type: Article

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