Toxoplasma gondii: Experimental infection in cats vaccinated with 60Co-irradiated tachyzoites

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 65, Issue 3-4, 1996, Pages 173-183

  Omata, Yoshitaka ^a   Aihara, Yuri ^a   Kanda, Masanori ^b   Saito, Atsushi ^a   Igarashi, Ikuo ^a   Suzuki, Naoyoshi ^a  

^a OBIHIRO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b SHIONOGI AND CO LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cat; Immune reaction; Irradiation; Toxoplasma gondii

Indexed keywords

COBALT 60; TOXOPLASMA GONDII VACCINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNITY; IMMUNOGENICITY; IRRADIATION; NONHUMAN; TACHYZOITE; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS; VACCINATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; CAT DISEASES; CATS; CELLS, CULTURED; COBALT RADIOISOTOPES; FEMALE; MACROPHAGES, PERITONEAL; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; RANDOM ALLOCATION; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, ANIMAL; VACCINATION;

ANIMALIA; FELIDAE; FELIS CATUS; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 0030601754     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-4017(96)00973-9     Document Type: Article

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