Pneumonic tularemia in rabbits resembles the human disease as illustrated by radiographic and hematological changes after infection

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Reed, Douglas S ^a   Smith, Le'Kneitah ^a   Dunsmore, Tammy ^a   Trichel, Anita ^a   Ortiz, Luis A ^a   Cole, Kelly Stefano ^a   Barry, Eileen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; CHOLESTEROL; MICROSOMAL AMINOPEPTIDASE;

AEROSOL; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BLOOD SAMPLING; CELL COUNT; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; FEVER; FLUID INTAKE; FOOD INTAKE; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; GRANULOCYTE; LYMPHOCYTOPENIA; MONOCYTE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PNEUMONIC TULAREMIA; RADIOGRAPHY; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TULAREMIA; WEIGHT REDUCTION; ANIMAL; BLOOD; EATING; HUMAN; ILEUS; INTESTINE; KIDNEY; LIVER; LUNG; MICROBIOLOGY; PNEUMONIA; RABBIT; SPLEEN;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; NEGIBACTERIA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD13; EATING; HUMANS; ILEUS; INTESTINES; KIDNEY; LIVER; LUNG; LYMPHOPENIA; PLATELET COUNT; PNEUMONIA; RABBITS; SPLEEN; TULAREMIA;

EID: 80052692087     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0024654     Document Type: Article

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