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Experimental infection of domestic cats with passaged genotype I Bartonella henselae.
Veterinary microbiology - 21 Jun 2007
Werner Jonathan A, Kasten Rickie W, Feng Sunlian, Sykes Jane E, Hodzic Emir, Salemi Michelle R, Barthold Stephen W, Chomel Bruno B
Abstract excerpt
The influence of in vitro passage on Bartonella henselae pathogenesis in cats has not been thoroughly evaluated. Our objective was to examine the bacterial kinetics and humoral immune responses in cats experimentally infected with three different in vitro passages of B. henselae F1, a genotype I strain of feline origin. The F1 strain was in vitro passaged 20 and 40 times, and each was inoculated into a group of 5...
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