Suggested dosage rates of melarsoprol in the treatment of mice experimentally infected with Trypanosoma brucei gambiense

Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 71-74

  Mbati, P A ^a   Hirumi, K ^b   Inoue, N ^b   Situakibanza, N H ^c   Hirumi, H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIMPOPO   (South Africa)

^b OBIHIRO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c Cliniques Universitaires de Kinshasa   (Democratic Republic Congo)

Author keywords

Mel B; Mice; PCR; Trypanosoma brucei gambiense

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; RODENTIA; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI GAMBIENSE;

ANTITRYPANOSOMAL AGENT; MELARSOPROL;

AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; GENETICS; MOUSE; TRYPANOSOMA;

ANIMALS; MELARSOPROL; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; TRYPANOCIDAL AGENTS; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI GAMBIENSE; TRYPANOSOMIASIS, AFRICAN;

EID: 0034144939     PISSN: 00302465     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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