Acute Trypanosoma cruzi infection in mouse induces infertility or placental parasite invasion and ischemic necrosis associated with massive fetal loss

American Journal of Pathology

Volumn 161, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 673-680

  Mjihdi, Abdelkarim ^a   Lambot, Marie Alexandra ^b   Stewart, Ian J ^c   Detournay, Olivier ^a   Noël, Jean Christophe ^b   Carlier, Yves ^a   Truyens, Carine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b ERASME HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECIDUA; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FETUS; FETUS WASTAGE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NEWBORN MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PARASITEMIA; PLACENTA DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE NECROSIS; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPANOSOMIASIS;

EID: 0036968841     PISSN: 00029440     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9440(10)64223-X     Document Type: Article

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