Cryptosporidiosis associated with emaciation and proliferative gastritis in a laboratory-reared South African clawed frog (Xenopus laevis)

Comparative Medicine

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 81-84

  Green, Sherril L ^a   Bouley, Donna M ^a   Josling, Catherine A ^a   Fayer, Ronald ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WATER;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EUTHANASIA; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INTESTINE; LABORATORY; MYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; OOCYST; PATHOGENESIS; PROLIFERATIVE GASTRITIS; STOMACH DISEASE; VIRUS INFECTION; WEIGHT REDUCTION; XENOPUS LAEVIS; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; GASTRITIS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; WEIGHT LOSS; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0037297125     PISSN: 00236764     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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