Susceptibility of Common Voles to Experimental Toxoplasmosis

Journal of Wildlife Diseases

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 640-642

  Sedlák, Kamil ^a   Literák, Ivan ^b   Pavlásek, Ivan ^a   Benák, Jaromír ^b  

^a Statni veterinarni ustav Praha   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY AND PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Experimental infections; Pathology; Rodents; Serology; Toxoplasma gondii

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOON ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL PARASITOSIS; ARTICLE; ARVICOLINAE; BLOOD; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DOSE RESPONSE; DYE DILUTION CURVE; IMMUNOLOGY; LATEX AGGLUTINATION TEST; OOCYTE; PARASITOLOGY; RODENT DISEASE; TOXOPLASMA;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; ARVICOLINAE; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, IMMUNOLOGIC; DYE DILUTION TECHNIQUE; LATEX FIXATION TESTS; OOCYTES; RODENT DISEASES; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, ANIMAL;

EID: 0035403545     PISSN: 00903558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7589/0090-3558-37.3.640     Document Type: Article

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