Fecal-oral transmission of the cyst form of Blastocystis hominis in rats

Parasitology Research

Volumn 94, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 391-396

  Yoshikawa, Hisao ^a   Yoshida, Kumi ^a,b   Nakajima, Ayumi ^a,b   Yamanari, Kimie ^a,b   Iwatani, Satoru ^b   Kimata, Isao ^b  

^a NARA WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYSTIS HOMINIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FECES CULTURE; GUINEA PIG; INOCULATION; MALE; MOUTH INFECTION; NONHUMAN; PARASITE CULTIVATION; PARASITE ISOLATION; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; RAT;

ANIMALS; BLASTOCYSTIS HOMINIS; BLASTOCYSTIS INFECTIONS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FECES; MOUTH; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

BLASTOCYSTIS; BLASTOCYSTIS HOMINIS; CAVIA PORCELLUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 12144274290     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-004-1230-5     Document Type: Article

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