Dissemination of a Highly Virulent Pathogen: Tracking The Early Events That Define Infection

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 1-18

  Gonzalez, Rodrigo J ^a,b   Lane, M Chelsea ^a,c   Wagner, Nikki J ^a   Weening, Eric H ^a   Miller, Virginia L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL MIGRATION; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFECTION; MOUSE; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; PLAGUE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; YERSINIA PESTIS; ANIMAL; BACTERIAL SHEDDING; C57BL MOUSE; DERMIS; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; LYMPH NODE; LYMPH VESSEL; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; SKIN; TRANSGENIC ORGANISM; TRANSMISSION; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MAMMALIA; YERSINIA PESTIS;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL SHEDDING; DERMIS; FEMALE; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC VESSELS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEUTROPHILS; ORGANISMS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PLAGUE; SKIN; VIRULENCE; YERSINIA PESTIS;

EID: 84923834246     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1004587     Document Type: Article

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