Real-time PCR reveals rapid dissemination of Leptospira interrogans after intraperitoneal and conjunctival inoculation of hamsters

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 84, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 2105-2115

  Wunder, Elsio A ^a,b   Figueira, Claudio P ^b   Santos, Gisele R ^b   Lourdault, Kristel ^c,d   Matthias, Michael A ^e   Vinetz, Joseph M ^e   Ramos, Eduardo ^b   Haake, David A ^d   Picardeau, Mathieu ^c   dos Reis, Mitermayer G ^b   Ko, Albert I ^a,b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^c INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CLEARANCE; BACTERIAL KINETICS; BACTERIAL LOAD; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONJUNCTIVAL INOCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INOCULATION; INTRAPERITONEAL INOCULATION; LEPTOSPIRA INTERROGANS; LEPTOSPIROSIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PERITONITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SYRIAN HAMSTER; ANIMAL; CONJUNCTIVA; DISEASE MODEL; HAMSTER; MICROBIOLOGY; MORTALITY; PERITONEAL CAVITY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL LOAD; CONJUNCTIVA; CRICETINAE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; LEPTOSPIRA INTERROGANS; LEPTOSPIROSIS; MALE; PERITONEAL CAVITY; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 84976871046     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00094-16     Document Type: Article

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