THE ENHANCING EFFECT OF CONCURRENT INFECTION WITH PNEUMOTROPIC VIRUSES ON PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS IN MICE

Mogens Volkert, Cynthia Pierce, Frank L. Horsfall, René Dubos

The Journal of Experimental Medicine · 1947 · 56 citations · 7 references

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The course of pulmonary tuberculosis in the mouse appears to be accelerated as a result of concurrent infection of the lung with either of two pneumotropic viruses. This effect is obtained with virus inocula sufficiently small as to induce little or no definite viral pneumonia.

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