The migration and localization of Loa loa infective and fourth-stage larvae in normal and immunosuppressed rodents

Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology

Volumn 96, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 823-830

  Wanji, S ^a,b   Tendongfor, N ^a,b   Vuong, P N ^c   Enyong, P ^d   Bain, O ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BUEA   (Cameroon)

^b Res Found in Trop Dis/E   (Cameroon)

^c Hopital Saint Michel   (France)

^d Tropical Medicine Research Station   (Cameroon)

^e Parasitol Comparee Modeles E   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; INOCULATION; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; LOA LOA; MIGRATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; RAT;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GERBILLINAE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; LARVA; LOA; LOIASIS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MOVEMENT; ORGAN SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA; LOA LOA; MAMMALIA; MERIONES UNGUICULATUS; NEMATODA; RODENTIA;

EID: 0036973509     PISSN: 00034983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/000349802125002220     Document Type: Article

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