An inhalation model of acute Q fever in guinea pigs

Coxiella burnetii is an intracellular pathogen that can cause both acute and chronic disease (Q fever) in humans and infects many animals with varying clinical illness and persistence. A guinea pig aerosol-challenge model of acute Q fever was developed using infection with C. burnetii across a 5-log...

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Main Author: Russell-Lodrigue, Kasi Elizabeth
Other Authors: De la Concha-Bermejillo, Andres
Format: Others
Language:en_US
Published: 2010
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-1209
http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-1209