Clinical Effects of Gamma-Radiation-Resistant Aspergillus sydowii on Germ-Free Mice Immunologically Prone to Inflammatory Bowel Disease

We report and investigated a case of inadvertent contamination of 125 mice (housed in two germ-free positive-pressurized isolators) with emerging human and coral pathogen Aspergillus sydowii. The infected mice correspond to genetic line SAMP1/YitFc, which have 100% immune predisposition to develop C...

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Main Authors: Alexander Rodriguez-Palacios, Natalia Aladyshkina, Mauricio Retuerto, Christopher L. Hager, Sanja Ilic, Mahmoud A. Ghannoum, Fabio Cominelli
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2016-01-01
Series:Journal of Pathogens
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/5748745