An Intradermal Inoculation Model of Scrub Typhus in Swiss CD-1 Mice Demonstrates More Rapid Dissemination of Virulent Strains of Orientia tsutsugamushi

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Sunyakumthorn, Piyanate ^a,b   Paris, Daniel H ^b   Chan, Teik Chye ^a   Jones, Margaret ^c   Luce Fedrow, Alison ^a   Chattopadhyay, Suchismita ^a   Jiang, Ju ^a   Anantatat, Tippawan ^b   Turner, Gareth D H ^b,c   Day, Nicholas P J ^b   Richards, Allen L ^a,d  

^a NAVAL MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; INTERCELLULAR ADHESION MOLECULE 1; L SELECTIN; VASCULAR CELL ADHESION MOLECULE 1;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL LOAD; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CELL ACTIVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE MODEL; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INJECTION SITE; INOCULATION; LEUKOCYTE ACTIVATION; LUNG; LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; LYMPHADENOPATHY; LYMPHATIC DRAINAGE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; OUTBRED STRAIN; PATHOGENESIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCRUB TYPHUS; SKIN BIOPSY; SPLEEN; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; CELL ADHESION MOLECULES; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INJECTIONS, INTRADERMAL; MICE; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; SCRUB TYPHUS; VASCULAR CELL ADHESION MOLECULE-1;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MUS; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI;

EID: 84872432755     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0054570     Document Type: Article

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