Host cells of Toxoplasma gondii encystation in infected primary culture from mouse brain

Parasitology Research

Volumn 83, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 637-641

  Fischer, Hans Georg ^a   Nitzgen, Bernd ^a   Reichmann, Gaby ^a,c   Groß, Uwe ^b   Hadding, Ulrich ^a  

^a Inst for Med Microbiol/Virology   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HOST CELL; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CELLS, CULTURED; CYSTS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; NEUROGLIA; NEURONS; TIME FACTORS; TOXOPLASMA;

ANIMALIA; MURINAE; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 0030841067     PISSN: 00443255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004360050311     Document Type: Article

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