Detecting and measuring small numbers of viable Coxiella burnetii

FEMS Immunology and Medical Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 61-65

  Lockhart, Michelle ^a   Islam, Aminul ^b   Graves, Stephen ^b   Fenwick, Stan ^c   Stenos, John ^a  

^a Australian Rickettsial Reference Laboratory   (Australia)

^b NSW Health   (Australia)

^c MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Coxiella burnetii; Measuring; Viable

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CELL CULTURE; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COXIELLA BURNETII; FEMALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; Q FEVER; SCID MOUSE; SPLEEN;

ANIMALS; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; CELL LINE; COXIELLA BURNETII; FEMALE; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, SCID; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPLEEN; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84855689586     PISSN: 09288244     EISSN: 1574695X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-695X.2011.00898.x     Document Type: Article

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