Fit for consumption: Zebrafish as a model for tuberculosis

DMM Disease Models and Mechanisms

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 777-784

  Cronan, Mark R ^a   Tobin, David M ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Disease models; Genetics; Mycobacterium; Pathogenesis; Tuberculosis; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; GRANULOMA; INNATE IMMUNITY; MYCOBACTERIUM MARINUM; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TUBERCULOSIS; ZEBRA FISH; ANIMAL; DISEASE MODEL; GENETICS; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, INNATE; MYCOBACTERIUM MARINUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 84903989880     PISSN: 17548403     EISSN: 17548411     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dmm.016089     Document Type: Review

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