Oviduct Infection and Hydrosalpinx in DBA1/j Mice Is Induced by Intracervical but Not Intravaginal Inoculation with Chlamydia muridarum

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Tang, Lingli ^a,b   Zhang, Hongbo ^a,b   Lei, Lei ^a   Gong, Siqi ^a   Zhou, Zhiguang ^b   Baseman, Joel ^a   Zhong, Guangming ^a  

^a University of Texas Health Science Center   (United States)

^b CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL KINETICS; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIOLYSIS; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CHLAMYDIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDOMETRIUM; EPITHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL TRACT INFECTION; GENOME ANALYSIS; HYDROSALPINX; INOCULATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OVIDUCT; SCORING SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; CERVIX UTERI; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDIA MURIDARUM; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FALLOPIAN TUBE DISEASES; FALLOPIAN TUBES; FEMALE; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED DBA; REPRODUCTIVE TRACT INFECTIONS; VAGINA;

EID: 84881103684     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0071649     Document Type: Article

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