Experimental congenital toxoplasmosis in Wistar and Holtzman rats

Parasite

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 63-66

  Paulino, J P ^a   Vitor, Ricardo W A ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Congenital toxoplasmosis; Rats; Toxoplasma gondii

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; RATTUS NORVEGICUS; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL PARASITOSIS; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; FETOMATERNAL TRANSFUSION; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LACTATION; MILK; MOUSE; NEWBORN; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; RAT; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; TOXOPLASMA; VIRULENCE; WISTAR RAT;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; FEMALE; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; INJECTIONS, SUBCUTANEOUS; LACTATION; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; MICE; MILK; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, PARASITIC; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, ANIMAL; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0033090983     PISSN: 1252607X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/parasite/1999061063     Document Type: Article

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