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Development of a murine model of chronic Salmonella infection.
Infection and immunity - 1 Feb 1997
Sukupolvi S, Edelstein A, Rhen M, Normark S J, Pfeifer J D
Abstract excerpt
The invasive disease caused by Salmonella typhimurium in mice resembles the acute phase of human typhoid fever caused by Salmonella typhi, and experimental murine salmonellosis is a widely used experimental model for systemic salmonellosis. In this paper we demonstrate that murine S. typhimurium infection can also be used to model the development of the chronic carrier state that develops in humans after...
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