Ng TF, Kondov NO, Hayashimoto N, Uchida R, Cha Y, Beyer AI, Wong W, Pesavento PA, Suemizu H, Muench MO, Delwart E. Identification of an astrovirus commonly
infecting laboratory mice in the US and Japan.
Not exact matches
What's more, an ointment containing the peptide effectively treated wounds
infected with methicillin - resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and the increasingly common hospital infection bacterium Acinetobacter baumannii in
mice and on
laboratory samples of human skin.
Moreover, in separate experiments conducted in the United States, treatment with antimalarials did not affect survival in
laboratory mice infected with Ebola virus.
Experimental research on drugs, immunology, and the development of malaria is typically done on related Plasmodium species that
infect rodents, including
laboratory - reared
mice.
While studying the inflammatory mechanisms underlying colitis in rodents, a team of researchers led by Dana Philpott and Thierry Mallevaey realized that their
laboratory mice were more susceptible to developing the disease if their intestines were already
infected with the protozoan Tritrichomonas muris.
Prusiner, together with Fred Cohen and his colleagues, also at UCSF, and Ruth Gabizon at Hadassah University Hospital in Israel, used human prions to
infect a special strain of
laboratory mice.
For comparison, bacteria grown in a
laboratory on Earth in normal gravity
infected another group of
mice.
Interestingly, conventional
laboratory mice previously
infected with this virus died, but did not develop symptoms of Ebola hemorrhagic fever.
On the contrary, recent evidence indicates that XMRV is a contaminant originating from the recombination of two
mouse endogenous retroviruses during passaging of a prostate tumor xenograft (CWR22) in
mice, generating
laboratory - derived cell lines that are XMRV -
infected.