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Alterations in cytokines and effects of dexamethasone immunosuppression during subclinical infections of invasive Klebsiella pneumoniae with hypermucoviscosity phenotype in rhesus (Macaca mulatta) and cynomolgus (Macaca fascicularis) macaques.
Comparative medicine - 1 Feb 2010
Burke Robin L, West Michael W, Erwin-Cohen Rebecca, Selby Edward B, Fisher Diana E, Twenhafel Nancy A
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Invasive Klebsiella pneumoniae with the hypermucoviscosity phenotype (HMV K. pneumoniae) is an emerging human pathogen that also has been attributed to fatal multisystemic disease in African green monkeys at our institution. Combining a cluster of subclinically infected macaques identified in Mar...
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