Refinement of the hamster model of clostridium difficile disease

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 646, Issue , 2010, Pages 215-227

  Douce, Gillian ^a   Goulding, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Clostridium difficile; colonisation; Golden Syrian hamster; histological damage; telemetry

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CRICETINAE; MESOCRICETUS AURATUS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTION; DISEASE MODEL; FEMALE; HAMSTER; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SYRIAN HAMSTER; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; CRICETINAE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MESOCRICETUS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION;

EID: 79955771672     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-60327-365-7_14     Document Type: Article

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