Strategies to prevent, treat, and provoke Corynebacterium-associated hyperkeratosis in athymic nude mice

Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 378-388

  Burr, Holly N ^a,b   Lipman, Neil S ^a,b   White, Julie R ^a,b   Zheng, Junting ^b   Wolf, Felix R ^a,b  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; PENICILLIN G; RNA 16S; STREPTOMYCIN; VETERINARY DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; ASYMPTOMATIC INFECTION; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLOOD CULTURE; BUCCAL SWAB; CARDIOCENTESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORYNEBACTERIUM; CORYNEBACTERIUM BOVIS; CORYNEBACTERIUM INFECTION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG EFFICACY; ERADICATION THERAPY; FEMALE; HEART SURGERY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HYPERKERATOSIS; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NUDE MOUSE; PREVALENCE; PROVOCATION TEST; SAMPLING; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN SCRAPE; SKIN SWAB;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ADMINISTRATION, TOPICAL; AMOXICILLIN; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, LABORATORY; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CORYNEBACTERIUM; CORYNEBACTERIUM INFECTIONS; DERMATITIS; FEMALE; MALE; MICE; MICE, NUDE; PENICILLINS; RODENT DISEASES; SKIN; SKIN DISEASES, BACTERIAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CORYNEBACTERIUM; CORYNEBACTERIUM BOVIS; MUS; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 79960623808     PISSN: 15596109     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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