Markers for predicting death as an outcome for mice used in infectious disease research

Comparative Medicine

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 492-498

  Trammell, Rita A ^a   Toth, Linda A ^a  

^a SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; DEATH; INFECTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RADIOFREQUENCY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENTATION; ANIMAL WELFARE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, LABORATORY; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BODY TEMPERATURE; BODY WEIGHT; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; MICE; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TELEMETRY;

EID: 84856001810     PISSN: 15320820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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