TB infection in the nonhuman primate biomedical model: Tip of the iceberg?

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 365-367

  Wilbur, A K ^a   Engel, G A ^a   Jones Engel, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MACACA; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS COMPLEX; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCREENING TEST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS;

ANIMALS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PRIMATES; SKIN TESTS; TUBERCULOSIS;

ANIMALIA; CORYNEBACTERINEAE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS COMPLEX; PRIMATES;

EID: 84864628699     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: 15322777     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2012.05.037     Document Type: Article

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