A Hematogenously Disseminated Orientia tsutsugamsushi-Infected Murine Model of Scrub Typhus

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Shelite, Thomas R ^a   Saito, Tais B ^a   Mendell, Nicole L ^a   Gong, Bin ^a   Xu, Guang ^a   Soong, Lynn ^a   Valbuena, Gustavo ^a   Bouyer, Donald H ^a   Walker, David H ^a  

^a University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL LOAD; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BODY WEIGHT; CELL INFILTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DISEASE COURSE; ENDOTHELIAL DYSFUNCTION; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; LD 50; LETHALITY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; MOUSE; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; NONHUMAN; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCRUB TYPHUS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; DISEASE MODEL;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; SCRUB TYPHUS;

EID: 84905484572     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0002966     Document Type: Article

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