Percutaneous Interdigital Injection of Mycobacterium bovis as a Model for Tuberculous Lesion Development in Wild Brushtail Possums (Trichosurus vulpecula)

Journal of Comparative Pathology

Volumn 148, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 33-42

  Nugent, G ^a   Whitford, E J ^a   Yockney, I ^a   Perry, M ^a   Tompkins, D M ^a   Holtslag, N ^a   Cross, M L ^a  

^a LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Infection model; New Zealand; Possum; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BOVINE TUBERCULOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HEPATITIS; HINDLIMB; INCIDENCE; INFLAMMATION; LUNG INFECTION; LYMPH NODE; LYMPHADENITIS; LYMPHATIC SYSTEM INFECTION; MALE; MESENTERY LYMPH NODE; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRICHOSURUS; TRICHOSURUS VULPECULA;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; EXTREMITIES; FEMALE; INJECTIONS, SUBCUTANEOUS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHADENITIS; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; TRICHOSURUS; TUBERCULOSIS;

ANIMALIA; BACILLI (CLASS); BOVINAE; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; PHALANGERIDAE; TRICHOSURUS VULPECULA;

EID: 84872928651     PISSN: 00219975     EISSN: 15323129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcpa.2012.05.006     Document Type: Article

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