Long-term survival of Mycoplasma bovis in necrotic lesions and in phagocytic cells as demonstrated by transmission and immunogold electron microscopy in lung tissue from experimentally infected calves

Veterinary Microbiology

Volumn 162, Issue 2-4, 2013, Pages 949-953

  Kleinschmidt, Sven ^a   Spergser, Joachim ^b   Rosengarten, Renate ^b   Hewicker Trautwein, Marion ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

Author keywords

Calves; Electron microscopy; Macrophages; Mycoplasma bovis; Neutrophils; Pneumonia

Indexed keywords

POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; CATTLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; EXUDATE; IMMUNOGOLD ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; LONG TERM SURVIVAL; LUNG INFECTION; LUNG LESION; LUNG PARENCHYMA; MYCOPLASMA BOVIS; MYCOPLASMA BOVIS INFECTION; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LUNG; LUNG ABSCESS; MACROPHAGES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MYCOPLASMA BOVIS; MYCOPLASMA INFECTIONS; NECROSIS; PARAFFIN EMBEDDING; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; RABBITS;

BOS; MYCOPLASMA BOVIS; MYCOPLASMATALES;

EID: 84872498451     PISSN: 03781135     EISSN: 18732542     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetmic.2012.11.039     Document Type: Article

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