Leishmania (Leishmania) chagasi: Clinical and parasitological observations in experimentally infected Didelphis marsupialis, reservoir of New World visceral leishmaniasis

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 73-75

  Travi, B L ^a   Osorio, Y ^a   Guarin N ^a   Cadena, H ^a  

^a CENTRO INTERNACIONAL DE ENTRENAMIENTO E INVESTIGACIONES MÉDICAS CIDEIM   (Colombia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LEISHMANIA CHAGASI; LIVER; NONHUMAN; OPOSSUM; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMASTIGOTE; SHORT SURVEY; SPLEEN; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS;

ANIMALIA; DIDELPHIDAE; DIDELPHIS MARSUPIALIS; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI CHAGASI;

EID: 0031904292     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/expr.1998.4214     Document Type: Article

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