Therapeutic potential of bacteriophage in treating Klebsiella pneumoniae B5055-mediated lobar pneumonia in mice

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 57, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1508-1513

  Chhibber, Sanjay ^a   Kaur, Sandeep ^a   Kumari, Seema ^a  

^a PANJAB UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; B 5055; PROBIOTIC AGENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG HALF LIFE; INFECTION PREVENTION; INOCULATION; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LOBAR PNEUMONIA; MALE; MICROMORPHOLOGY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPTIMAL DRUG DOSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANIMALS; BACTERIOPHAGES; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HUMANS; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LUNG; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; PNEUMONIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 57749185051     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.2008/002873-0     Document Type: Article

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