Multigenic control and sex bias in host susceptibility to spore-induced pulmonary anthrax in mice

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 79, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 3204-3215

  Yadav, Jagjit S ^a   Pradhan, Suman ^a   Kapoor, Renuka ^a   Bangar, Hansraj ^a   Burzynski, Benjamin B ^a   Prows, Daniel R ^a   Levin, Linda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTHRAX; ARTICLE; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL LOAD; BACTERIAL SPORE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CHROMOSOME 11; CHROMOSOME 17; CHROMOSOME 5; CHROMOSOME 6; CHROMOSOME 9; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GENDER BIAS; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC REGULATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; HOST SUSCEPTIBILITY; KINETICS; MALE; MORTALITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGEN LOAD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ANTHRAX; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SURVIVAL TIME;

ANIMALS; ANTHRAX; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; LUNG DISEASES; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED DBA; PREJUDICE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; RODENT DISEASES; SPORES, BACTERIAL; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 79961115582     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.01389-10     Document Type: Article

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