Mycobacterium ulcerans causes minimal pathogenesis and colonization in medaka (Oryzias latipes): An experimental fish model of disease transmission

Microbes and Infection

Volumn 14, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 719-729

  Mosi, Lydia ^a,b   Mutoji, Nadine K ^c   Basile, Fritz A ^a   Donnell, Robert ^a   Jackson, Kathrine L ^d   Spangenberg, Thomas ^d   Kishi, Yoshito ^d   Ennis, Don G ^c   Small, Pamela L C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GHANA   (Ghana)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fish; Medaka; Mycobacterium ulcerans; Mycolactone

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL TOXIN; LACTONE; MYCOLACTONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BURULI ULCER; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FISH DISEASE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MORTALITY; MYCOBACTERIUM MARINUM; MYCOBACTERIUM ULCERANS; NONHUMAN; ORYZIAS; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE CULTURE;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; FISH DISEASES; HUMANS; MACROLIDES; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS; MYCOBACTERIUM ULCERANS; ORYZIAS; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CARASSIUS AURATUS; CORYNEBACTERINEAE; MYCOBACTERIUM MARINUM; MYCOBACTERIUM ULCERANS; ORYZIAS LATIPES; ORYZIINAE;

EID: 84863101798     PISSN: 12864579     EISSN: 1769714X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.micinf.2012.02.009     Document Type: Article

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