Agammaglobulinemia and Staphylococcus aureus botryomycosis in a cohort of related sentinel Swiss webster mice

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1881-1884

  Bridgeford, Erin C ^a   Fox, James G ^a   Nambiar, Prashant R ^a   Rogers, Arlin B ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G;

AGAMMAGLOBULINEMIA; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BLOOD CELL COUNT; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GRANULOMATOSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEUKOPENIA; LYMPHOCYTOPENIA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROCONVERSION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

AGAMMAGLOBULINEMIA; ANIMALS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; MICE; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; SKIN; STAPHYLOCOCCAL SKIN INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

ANIMALIA; MUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 43249107038     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01875-07     Document Type: Article

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