Experimental anaerobic bacterial infections in mice

The development of a technique for producing a pure Bacteroides fragilis infection in mice is described. The infection produces large subcutaneous abscesses at the site of bacterial injection in approximately 90% of the mice. The abscess can be seen as an obvious swelling within 5-7 days post-injection. The infection was initiated by injection of pure cultures grown in a semisolid medium. Similar infections were also produced with pure cultures of B. distasonis, B. ovatus, B. thetaiotaomicron, and B. vulgatus.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph. D.

Level thesis:degree_level

doctoral

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Microbiology

Department dc:contributor.department

Microbiology

Grantor dc:publisher

Virginia Tech

Year dc:date.issued

1977

Author dc:creator

• Walker, Clay B.

Chair dc:contributor.committeechair

• Wilkins, Tracy D.

Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember

• Moore, Walter E. C.
• Cummins, C. S.
• Gregory, Eugene M.
• Krieg, Noel R.

• infections

Statement dc:rights

• In Copyright

Licence dc:rights.uri

• http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Language dc:language.iso

en

Dc Identifier Other

etd-08012012-040709

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/39010