Congenital transmission of experimental chronic toxoplasmosis in rats

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 85, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 746-748

  Freyre, Alvaro ^a,b   Falcón, Jesús ^a   Correa, Oscar ^a   El Elhou, Suhad ^a   Mendez, Juliana ^b   Gedda, Carmen ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA REPÚBLICA   (Uruguay)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE LA REPÚBLICA   (Uruguay)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONGENITAL TOXOPLASMOSIS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE ISOLATION; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PLACENTAL TRANSFER; RAT; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

ANIMALS; CHRONIC DISEASE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; FEMALE; MICE; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TOXOPLASMOSIS, ANIMAL;

EID: 0032838266     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3285756     Document Type: Article

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