Chronic Trypanosoma cruzi infection in dogs: 11 cases (1987-1996)

Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association

Volumn 213, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 497-500

  Meurs, Kathryn M ^a,b   Anthony, Margaret A ^a   Slater, Margaret ^a   Miller, Matthew W ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOON ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CHAGAS DISEASE; CHRONIC DISEASE; DOG; DOG DISEASE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE; PATHOLOGY; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TIME; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; CHAGAS DISEASE; CHRONIC DISEASE; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; MALE; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PREVALENCE; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TEXAS; TIME FACTORS; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 0032528756     PISSN: 00031488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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