Plasmodium berghei: A new rat model for assessment of blood schizonticidal activity

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 93, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 92-94

  Dow, Geoffreym S ^a   Reynoldson, James A ^a   Andrew Thompson, R C ^a  

^a MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Antimalarial drags; Chloroquine; Drug efficacy in vivo; Malaria; Mouse malaria model; Plasmodium berghei; Rat malaria model

Indexed keywords

CHLOROQUINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFICACY; MALARIA; MALE; NONHUMAN; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCHIZONT;

ANIMALIA; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI;

EID: 0032886938     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/expr.1999.4433     Document Type: Article

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