Toxoplasmosis of rats: A review, with considerations of their value as an animal model and their possible role in epidemiology

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-32

  Dubey, J P ^a   Frenkel, J K ^b  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Oocyst infectivity; Pathogenicity; Prevalence; Rats; Rattus norvegicus; Tissue cysts; Toxoplasma gondii; Toxoplasmosis

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL PARASITOSIS; CONGENITAL TOXOPLASMOSIS; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HOST RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; OOCYST; PARASITE IMMUNITY; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PREVALENCE; RAT; REVIEW; SPOROZOITE; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALIA; FELIS CATUS; PROTOZOA; RATTUS NORVEGICUS; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 0031747120     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-4017(97)00227-6     Document Type: Article

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