Loss of oral infectivity of tissue cysts of Toxoplasma gondii RH strain to outbred Swiss Webster mice

International Journal for Parasitology

Volumn 27, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 1555-1559

  Villard, O ^a   Candolfi, E ^a   Ferguson, D J P ^b   Marcellin, L ^c   Kien, T ^a  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c HÔPITAL DE HAUTEPIERRE   (France)

Author keywords

Cysts; RH strain; Sulfadiazine treatment; Toxoplasma gondii

Indexed keywords

SULFADIAZINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; BRAIN CYST; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SHORT SURVEY; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

EID: 0031455699     PISSN: 00207519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0020-7519(97)00144-6     Document Type: Article

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