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Experimental infection of three laboratory mouse stocks with a shrew origin Bartonella elizabethae strain: an evaluation of bacterial host switching potential

BACKGROUND: Bartonella elizabethae has been reported as a causative agent of human illnesses and strains of this bacterium are commonly isolated from commensal small mammals in Asia. METHODS: Since the zoonotic potential of a pathogen is often related to its host switching ability, we explored the c...

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Autores principales: Colton, Leah, Kabeya, Hidenori, Kosoy, Michael
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Co-Action Publishing 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3426323/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22957127
http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/iee.v2i0.17132