Identification of pseudocysts of Tritrichomonas muris in Armenian hamsters and their transmission to mice

Laboratory Animal Science

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 313-315

  Lipman, Neil S ^a,b   Lampen, Nina ^a   Nguyen, Hai T ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HAMSTER; INFECTION CONTROL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PSEUDOCYST; SEROLOGY; TRICHOMONAS; TRICHOMONIASIS;

ANIMALS; CRICETINAE; CRICETULUS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FECES; FEMALE; MASTIGOPHORA INFECTIONS; MICE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; RODENT DISEASES; TRITRICHOMONAS;

EID: 0033014480     PISSN: 00236764     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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