Pregnancy reduces the genetic resistance of C57BL/6 mice to Listeria monocytogenes infection by intragastric inoculation

Microbial Pathogenesis

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 360-366

  Poulsen, Keith P ^a,b   Faith, Nancy G ^a,b   Steinberg, Howard ^a   Czuprynski, Charles J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioluminescence; Listeria monocytogenes; Mouse; Pregnancy

Indexed keywords

A J MOUSE; ABORTION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BIOLUMINESCENCE; C57BL 6 MOUSE; CELL COUNT; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS DISEASE; GENETIC RESISTANCE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INFLAMMATION; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIOSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; STOMACH DISEASE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TISSUE NECROSIS; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; INFLAMMATION; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIOSIS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED A; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NECROSIS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; UTERUS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MUS;

EID: 80051474462     PISSN: 08824010     EISSN: 10961208     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.micpath.2011.02.003     Document Type: Article

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