Adipose tissue serves as a reservoir for recrudescent Rickettsia prowazekii infection in a mouse model

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Bechah, Yassina ^a   Paddock, Christopher D ^b   Capo, Christian ^a   Mege, Jean Louis ^a   Raoult, Didier ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA DEFENSIN; CYCLOSPORIN; DEXAMETHASONE; DOXYCYCLINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; PRIMER DNA;

ADIPOCYTE; ADIPOSE TISSUE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL CELL CULTURE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; DRUG EFFECT; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LIVER; LUNG; LUNG LESION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RICKETTSIA PROWAZEKII; SPLEEN; TYPHUS; ANIMAL; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; DISEASE MODEL; FEMALE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

MURINAE; MUS; RICKETTSIA PROWAZEKII; RICKETTSIACEAE;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BETA-DEFENSINS; DEXAMETHASONE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; LUNG; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RICKETTSIA PROWAZEKII; TYPHUS, EPIDEMIC LOUSE-BORNE;

EID: 77649123335     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0008547     Document Type: Article

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