Contribution of exotoxin A of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in acute and chronic experimental renal infection

Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 119-120

  Sharma, Saroj ^b   Kaur, Ramanjeet ^b   Yadav, Vanashree ^b   Harjai, Kusum ^b   Joshi, Kusum ^a  

^a POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

^b PANJAB UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PSEUDOMONAS EXOTOXIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; KIDNEY INFECTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PYELONEPHRITIS; SCORING SYSTEM; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADP RIBOSE TRANSFERASES; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; CHRONIC DISEASE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EXOTOXINS; HUMANS; KIDNEY; MICE; MUTATION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTIONS; PYELONEPHRITIS; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 4143097182     PISSN: 13446304     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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