New animal model for human ocular toxocariasis: Ophthalmoscopic observation

British Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 83, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 967-972

  Takayanagi, Tomoko Hara ^a   Akao, Nobuaki ^a   Suzuki, Ryoko ^a   Tomoda, Misato ^a   Tsukidate, Setsuko ^a   Fujita, Koichiro ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CHOROID HEMORRHAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION; EXUDATE; EYE FUNDUS; EYE INFECTION; FEMALE; GERBIL; LARVA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA HEMORRHAGE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TOXOCARA CANIS; TOXOCARIASIS; VASCULITIS; VITREOUS HEMORRHAGE;

EID: 0032780861     PISSN: 00071161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bjo.83.8.967     Document Type: Article

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