Reactivation of a Trypanosoma cruzi Infection in a Rhesus Monkey (Macaca mulatta) Experimentally Infected with SIV

Veterinary Pathology

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 721-725

  Kunz, E ^a   Matz Rensing K ^a   Stolte, N ^a   Hamilton, P B ^b   Kaup, F J ^a  

^a GERMAN PRIMATE CENTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Experimental infection; immunodeficiency; Macaca mulatta; myocarditis; SIV; Trypanosoma spp

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHAGAS DISEASE; FATALITY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MACACA; MALE; MONKEY DISEASE; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; SIMIAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; CHAGAS CARDIOMYOPATHY; CHAGAS DISEASE; FATAL OUTCOME; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MONKEY DISEASES; SIMIAN ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; SIMIAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 0036835635     PISSN: 03009858     EISSN: 15444221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1354/vp.39-6-721     Document Type: Article

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