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The susceptibility of some desert rodents to experimental infections with Shigella and Brucella organisms*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 May 2009

Thomas M. Floyd  and
Harry Hoogstraal
Thomas M. Floyd
Affiliation:
U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit, No. 3, Cairo, EG
Harry Hoogstraal
Affiliation:
U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit, No. 3, Cairo, EG
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Desert rodents often have been used successfully as laboratory animals in parasitology (Abdel Azim & Cowper, 1950; Adler & Feldman-Muhsam, 1952; Delanoe, 1929; Kuntz & Malakatis, 1954; Nicolle, Anderson & Colas-Belcour, 1927; Sergent & Poncet, 1951 a, b) and virology (Durand & Laigret, 1932; Gear & Davis, 1942; Noury, 1948; Snyder, Zarafonetis & Liu, 1945; Van Rooyen & Danskin, 1944; Zarafonetis, 1945). However, with the exception of investigations into the role of some of these animals as mammalian reservoirs of plague (Ristorcelli, 1938; Tikhomirova, 1934; Wassilieff, 1933), no reports have been found of their use for experimental bacterial infections.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Hygiene , Volume 52 , Issue 4 , December 1954 , pp. 516 - 524
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1954

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