Pathology of acute fatal babesiosis in hamsters experimentally infected with the WA-1 strain of Babesia

Laboratory Investigation

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 853-859

  Dao, Anh H ^a   Eberhard, Mark L ^b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NATL CENTER FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANEMIA; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BABESIA; BABESIOSIS; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HAMSTER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERODIAGNOSIS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMALS; BABESIA; BABESIOSIS; BRAIN; CRICETINAE; ERYTHROCYTES; HEMATOCRIT; HUMANS; LIVER; LUNG; LYMPH NODES; MALE; MESOCRICETUS; ORGAN SIZE; PARASITEMIA; SPLEEN; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0029925359     PISSN: 00236837     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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