Comparison of 99mTc- and 18F-ubiquicidin autoradiography to anti-Staphylococcus aureus immunofluorescence in rat muscle abscesses

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 995-999

  Salber, Dagmar ^a   Gunawan, Johannes ^b   Langen, Karl Josef ^c   Fricke, Eva ^b   Klauth, Peter ^c   Burchert, Wolfgang ^b   Zijlstra, Sijtse ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL DÜSSELDORF   (Germany)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^c FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

18F UBI 28 41; 18F UBI 29 41; 99mTc UBI 29 41; Autoradiography; Bacterial infections; S. aureus; Ubiquicidin

Indexed keywords

RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT; TECHNETIUM 99M; UBIQUICIDIN F 18; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; FLUORINE; RIBOSOMAL PROTEIN S30; RIBOSOME PROTEIN; TECHNETIUM;

ABSCESS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; CELL INFILTRATION; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; INOCULATION; MACROPHAGE; MALE; MUSCLE INJURY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; ABNORMAL RESPIRATORY SOUND; ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVALUATION; FISCHER 344 RAT; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; METHODOLOGY; MYOSITIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCINTISCANNING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION;

ABSCESS; ANIMALS; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; FLUORINE RADIOISOTOPES; MYOSITIS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESPIRATORY SOUNDS; RIBOSOMAL PROTEINS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; TECHNETIUM;

EID: 44849104310     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.108.050880     Document Type: Article

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