Horizontal transmission of Toxoplasma gondii in squirrel monkeys (Saimiri sciureus)

Experimental Animals

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 299-306

  Furuta, Takahisa ^a   Une, Yumi ^b   Omura, Mizuho ^b   Matsutani, Noriko ^b   Nomura, Yasuo ^b   Kikuchi, Takane ^a   Hattori, Shosaku ^a   Yoshikawa, Yasuhiro ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b AZABU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Horizontal; Squirrel monkey; Toxoplasmosis; Transmission

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; SAIMIRI; SAIMIRI SCIUREUS; SCIURIDAE; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

PROTOZOAL DNA;

AEROSOL; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL PARASITOSIS; ARTICLE; CEBIDAE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TOXOPLASMA;

AEROSOLS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, LABORATORY; BASE SEQUENCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, HORIZONTAL; DNA, PROTOZOAN; FEMALE; INHALATION EXPOSURE; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SAIMIRI; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, ANIMAL;

EID: 0035407475     PISSN: 13411357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1538/expanim.50.299     Document Type: Article

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