Discriminating virulence mechanisms among bacillus anthracis strains by using a murine subcutaneous infection model

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 429-435

  Chand, Hitendra S ^a,b   Drysdale, Melissa ^a   Lovchik, Julie ^a,b   Koehler, Theresa M ^c   Lipscomb, Mary F ^a,b   Lyons, C Rick ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHRAX TOXIN; MUTANT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTHRAX; ARTICLE; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; INOCULATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; SPORE GERMINATION;

ANIMALS; ANTHRAX; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; FEMALE; LETHAL DOSE 50; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PHAGOCYTES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 58449100776     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00647-08     Document Type: Article

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