Immune Response to Nocardia brasiliensis Antigens in an Experimental Model of Actinomycetoma in BALB/c Mice
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Immune response to Nocardia brasiliensis antigens in an experimental model of actinomycetoma in BALB/c mice.
Nine- to twelve-week-old BALB/c mice were injected in footpads with 10(7) CFU of a Nocardia brasiliensis cell suspension. Typical actinomycetoma lesions, characterized by severe local inflammation with abscess and fistula formation, were fully established by day 28 after infection. These changes presented for 90 days, and then tissue repair with scar formation slowly appeared, with complete hea...
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عنوان ژورنال: Infection and Immunity
سال: 1999
ISSN: 0019-9567,1098-5522
DOI: 10.1128/iai.67.5.2428-2432.1999