Extrapulmonary Dissemination of Mycobacterium bovis but Not Mycobacterium tuberculosis in a Bronchoscopic Rabbit Model of Cavitary Tuberculosis

The rabbit model of tuberculosis is attractive because of its pathophysiologic resemblance to the disease in humans. Rabbits are naturally resistant to infection but may manifest cavitary lung lesions. We describe here a novel approach that utilizes presensitization and bronchoscopic inoculation to...

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Main Authors: Nedeltchev, Gueno G., Raghunand, Tirumalai R., Jassal, Mandeep S., Lun, Shichun, Cheng, Qi-Jian, Bishai, William R.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: American Society for Microbiology (ASM) 2009
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Bacterial Infections
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2632025/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19064634
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1128/IAI.01132-08
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