Bacillus anthracis protective antigen kinetics in inhalation spore-challenged untreated or levofloxacin/ raxibacumab-treated New Zealand white rabbits

Toxins

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 120-138

  Corey, Alfred ^a   Migone, Thi Sau ^a   Bolmer, Sally ^a   Fiscella, Michele ^a   Ward, Chris ^a   Chen, Cecil ^a   Meister, Gabriel ^b  

^a GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United States)

^b BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Anthrax; Kinetics; Protective antigen; Raxibacumab

Indexed keywords

LEVOFLOXACIN; LOT 71128; PLACEBO; RAXIBACUMAB; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTHRAX; ARTICLE; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GOMPERTZ MODEL; HALF LIFE TIME; KINETICS; MALE; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; RABBIT; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME;

ADJUVANTS, IMMUNOLOGIC; ADMINISTRATION, INHALATION; ANIMALS; ANTHRAX; ANTHRAX VACCINES; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; KINETICS; MALE; OFLOXACIN; RABBITS; SPORES, BACTERIAL; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84873715247     PISSN: 20726651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/toxins5010120     Document Type: Article

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