Attentuated Trypanosoma cruzi infection in young rats nursed on infected mothers undergoing interferon-gamma treatment during pregnancy

Immunopharmacology

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 1-6

  Davila, Hector O ^a   Revelli, Silvia S ^a   Uasuf, Carina ^a   Didoli, Griselda ^a   Moreno, Hilda ^a   Falcoff, Ernesto ^b   Bottasso, Oscar A ^a  

^a FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS MÉDICAS   (Argentina)

^b INSTITUT CURIE   (France)

Author keywords

Interferon gamma; Lactation; Pregnancy; Trypanosoma cruzi

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; RECOMBINANT GAMMA INTERFERON;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION; FEMALE; LACTATION; MOTHER; NONHUMAN; PARASITEMIA; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; RAT; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPANOSOMIASIS; ANIMAL; BLOOD; CHAGAS DISEASE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; SUCKLING;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, SUCKLING; CHAGAS DISEASE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; FEMALE; INTERFERON-GAMMA, RECOMBINANT; LACTATION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, PARASITIC; RATS; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 0030611656     PISSN: 01623109     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0162-3109(97)00046-5     Document Type: Article

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