Amoebacidal effects of serum from the American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis)

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 90, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1480-1483

  Merchant, Mark ^a   Thibodeaux, Damon ^a   Loubser, Kara ^a   Elsey, Ruth M ^a,b  

^a MCNEESE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF WILDLIFE AND FISHERIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIAMEBIC AGENT; PROTEINASE; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; EDETIC ACID; PEPTIDE HYDROLASE;

ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY;

ACANTHAMOEBA; ALLIGATOR; ALLIGATOR MISSISSIPPIENSIS; AMOEBA; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DENSITY; LYSIS; NAEGLERIA GRUBERI; NONHUMAN; SERUM; SURVIVAL RATE; TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; ANIMAL; BLOOD; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; IMMUNOLOGY; KINETICS; METABOLISM; NAEGLERIA; PARASITOLOGY;

ACANTHAMOEBA; ALLIGATORS AND CROCODILES; ANIMALS; ANTICOAGULANTS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, IMMUNOLOGIC; EDETIC ACID; KINETICS; NAEGLERIA; PEPTIDE HYDROLASES; SERUM; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 14244260322     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-3382     Document Type: Article

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