Infection and stage conversion during murine pulmonary toxoplasmosis: A study with three different strains of Toxoplasma gondii

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 723-729

  Sahm, Monika ^b   Groß, Uwe ^a,b   Reiter Owona, Ingrid ^b   Seitz, Hanns Martin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; LUNG INFECTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VIRULENCE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUNG; LUNG DISEASES, PARASITIC; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, ANIMAL;

ANIMALIA; MURINAE; PROTOZOA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 0031817172     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3284578     Document Type: Article

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