Pulmonary abnormalities in mice with paracoccidioidomycosis: A sequential study comparing high resolution computed tomography and pathologic findings

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Lopera, Damaris ^a   Naranjo, Tonny ^a,b   Hidalgo, José Miguel ^c   Pascarelli, Bernardo Miguel de Oliveira ^d   Patiño, Jairo Hernando ^e,f   Lenzi, Henrique Leonel ^d   Restrepo, Angela ^a   Cano, Luz Elena ^a,b,e  

^a Corporación para Investigaciones Biológicas ^*  (Colombia)

^b Universidad Pontificia Bolivarina   (Colombia)

^c Hospital Universitario San Vicente de Paul   (Colombia)

^d INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^e UNIVERSIDAD DE ANTIOQUIA   (Colombia)

^f Clinica Las Americas   (Colombia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRONCHUS OBSTRUCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG GRANULOMA; LUNG INJURY; LUNG LESION; LUNG NODULE; LUNG PSEUDOTUMOR; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; MOUSE; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; NONHUMAN; PARACOCCIDIOIDES BRASILIENSIS; SOUTH AMERICAN BLASTOMYCOSIS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYTOCHEMISTRY; DISEASE MODEL; LUNG; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PNEUMONIA; RADIOGRAPHY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; LUNG; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; PARACOCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS; PNEUMONIA; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77956996575     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0000726     Document Type: Article

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