Effect of clindamycin in a model of acute murine toxoplasmosis

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 89-94

  Vuković, Dragana ^a   Djurković Djaković, Olgica ^a   Kovačević, Sanja ^b   Bobić, Branko ^a   Nikolíc, Aleksandra ^a   Todorović, Vera ^a   Babić, Dragan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Clindamycin; Murine model; Toxoplasma gondii

Indexed keywords

CLINDAMYCIN; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIPROTOZOAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BRAIN TISSUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUNG; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL TIME; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

ANIMALIA; MURINAE; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 0030936193     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.1997.tb00256.x     Document Type: Article

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