Pre-existing bacterial infections, not stress fever, influenced previous studies which labeled Gerrhosaurus major an afebrile lizard species

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 124, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 353-357

  Muchlinski, Alan E ^a   Gramajo, Ruth ^a   Garcia, Celithelma ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antibiotic; Body temperature set point; Fever; Lizard; Telemetry; Temperature regulation; Thermocouple

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ENROFLOXACIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BODY TEMPERATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEVER; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LIZARD; NONHUMAN; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THERMOREGULATION;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); GERRHOSAURIDAE; GERRHOSAURUS MAJOR; SQUAMATA;

EID: 0032726970     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1095-6433(99)00123-3     Document Type: Article

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