Establishment of a leptospirosis model in guinea pigs using an epicutaneous inoculations route

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 12, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Zhang, Yan ^a   Lou, Xiao Li ^a,b   Yang, Hong Liang ^c   Guo, Xiao Kui ^a   Zhang, Xiang Yan ^a   He, Ping ^a   Jiang, Xu Cheng ^a  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

^b SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DISEASE MODEL; EPICUTANEOUS INOCULATION; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; GUINEA PIG; HEMATURIA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INOCULATION; JAUNDICE; LEPTOSPIRA INTERROGANS; LEPTOSPIROSIS; LUNG HEMORRHAGE; MALE; NEPHRITIS; NONHUMAN; ORGAN DISTRIBUTION; SKIN BLEEDING; SKIN CAPILLARY; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM; ANIMAL; ANIMAL STRUCTURES; INJURY; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROSCOPY; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY; SKIN;

ANIMAL STRUCTURES; ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GUINEA PIGS; LEPTOSPIRA INTERROGANS; LEPTOSPIROSIS; MALE; MICROSCOPY; SKIN;

EID: 84862785649     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-12-20     Document Type: Article

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