Effect of Trypanosoma lewisi (Kinetoplastida: Trypanosomatidae) on the infection of white rats with Toxoplasma gondii (Eucoccidia: Sarcocystidae) oocysts

Revista de Biologia Tropical

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1121-1123

  Arrea, Gabriela Catarinella ^a   Carmona, Misael Chinchilla ^a   Bermúdez, Olga Marta Guerrero ^a   Abrahams, Elizabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE COSTA RICA   (Costa Rica)

Author keywords

Immunosuppression; Rats; Synergism; Toxoplasma gondii; Trypanosoma lewisi

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL PARASITOSIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN DISEASE; DISEASE CARRIER; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; IMMUNOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; RAT; TOXOPLASMA; TRYPANOSOMA LEWISI; TRYPANOSOMIASIS; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; BRAIN DISEASES; DISEASE VECTORS; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, ANIMAL; TRYPANOSOMA LEWISI; TRYPANOSOMIASIS;

EID: 0032228269     PISSN: 00347744     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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