Rabbit intestinal xenograft model for human Encephalitozoon infections in mice

Laboratory Animal Science

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 189-196

  Wasson, Katherine ^a   Snowden, Karen ^b   Didier, Elizabeth ^c   Shadduck, John ^b,d   Gelberg, Howard ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TULANE NATIONAL PRIMATE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d HESKA CORPORATION   (United States)

^e MC 002 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENCEPHALITOZOON; GRAFT INFECTION; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; INOCULATION; INTESTINE CELL; INTESTINE GRAFT; MALE; MICROSPORIDA; NONHUMAN; NUDE MOUSE; RABBIT; SCID MOUSE; XENOGRAFT;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENCEPHALITOZOON; ENCEPHALITOZOON CUNICULI; ENCEPHALITOZOONOSIS; FETUS; HUMANS; INTESTINE, SMALL; MICE; MICE, NUDE; MICE, SCID; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; RABBITS; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS;

EID: 0032916668     PISSN: 00236764     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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