Patterns of infection of haemoparasites in the fat sand rat, Psammomys obesus, in Tunisia, and effect on the host

Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology

Volumn 94, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 55-68

  Fichet Calvet, E ^a,c   Jomaa I ^b   Ismail, R Ben ^b   Ashford, R W ^a  

^a LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b PASTEUR INSTITUTE OF TUNIS   (Tunisia)

^c INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL PARASITOSIS; ARTICLE; BABESIA; BARTONELLA; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; INFECTION RATE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PARASITEMIA; RAT; SEASONAL VARIATION; TUNISIA;

ANIMALS; BABESIA; BABESIOSIS; BARTONELLA; BARTONELLA INFECTIONS; BORRELIA; BORRELIA INFECTIONS; GERBILLINAE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; PREVALENCE; SEASONS; SEPSIS; TUNISIA;

ANIMALIA; BABESIA; BABESIA SP.; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BARTONELLA; BARTONELLA SP.; BORRELIA; BORRELIA SP.; NEGIBACTERIA; PROTOZOA; PSAMMOMYS OBESUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 0033962778     PISSN: 00034983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00034980057617     Document Type: Article

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