Mouse Strain and Age Affect Susceptibility to Experimentally Induced Genital Trichomoniasis

Laboratory Animal Science

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 324-326

  Hook Jr , Reuel R ^a   St Claire, Marisa ^a   Riley, Lela K ^a   Franklin, Craig L ^a   Besch Williford, Cynthia L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL TRACT INFECTION; INFECTION RESISTANCE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TRICHOMONAS FOETUS; TRICHOMONIASIS;

AGING; ANIMALS; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; FEMALE; MASTIGOPHORA INFECTIONS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRITRICHOMONAS FOETUS; VAGINITIS;

EID: 0031403650     PISSN: 00236764     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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