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An outbreak of pulmonary mycosis in respiratory burst-deficient (gp91(phox-/-))Mice with concurrent acidophilic macrophage pneumonia.
Journal of comparative pathology - 1 Jan 2000
France M P, Muir D
Abstract excerpt
An outbreak of pulmonary abscessation due to the common environmental fungus Paecilomyces variotii occurred in a colony of gp91(phox-/-)mice, which lack functional NADPH oxidase, the enzyme complex responsible for generating the respiratory burst in phagocytes. Parenchyma surrounding the abscesses showed intense acidophilic macrophage pneumonia, and similar but much milder lesions were present in each of 24...
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