Koch's Postulates and the Pathogenesis of Comparative Infectious Disease Causation Associated with Bartonella species

Journal of Comparative Pathology

Volumn 148, Issue 2-3, 2013, Pages 115-125

  Breitschwerdt, E B ^a   Linder, K L ^a   Day, M J ^b   Maggi, R G ^a   Chomel, B B ^c   Kempf, V A J ^d  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Disease; Infection; Koch's postulates; Pathology

Indexed keywords

DNA; VASCULOTROPIN;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ANGIOSARCOMA; BACILLARY ANGIOMATOSIS; BACTEREMIA; BARTONELLA; BARTONELLA HENSELAE; BARTONELLA QUINTANA; BARTONELLOSIS; CAT; CAT SCRATCH DISEASE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DNA CROSS LINKING; DNA EXTRACTION; DOG; ENCEPHALITIS; ENDOCARDITIS; GRANULOMATOSIS; HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; HEPATITIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFECTION; IRIDOCYCLITIS; LYMPHADENITIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; MYOCARDITIS; NONHUMAN; PANNICULITIS; PATHOGENESIS; PELIOSIS HEPATIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; RHIZOBIALES; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; HUMANS; TUBERCULOSIS;

BARTONELLA; MAMMALIA; RODENTIA;

EID: 84875240358     PISSN: 00219975     EISSN: 15323129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcpa.2012.12.003     Document Type: Review

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