Parasitemia and parasitic loads in acute infection and after anti-gamma-interferon treatment in a toxoplasmic mouse model

Parasitology Research

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 339-344

  Miedouge M ^a   Bessieres M H ^a   Cassaing, S ^a   Swierczynski, B ^a   Seguela J P ^a  

^a CHU RANGUEIL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; GAMMA INTERFERON ANTIBODY; PYRIMETHAMINE; SULFADIAZINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARASITEMIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMALS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; ANTIBODIES; BRAIN; CHRONIC DISEASE; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; GENES, PROTOZOAN; INTERFERON TYPE II; LUNG; MICE; PARASITEMIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PYRIMETHAMINE; SULFADIAZINE; TOXOPLASMOSIS, ANIMAL;

ANIMALIA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 0030951359     PISSN: 00443255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004360050258     Document Type: Article

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