Dexamethasone treatment induces susceptibility of outbred Webster mice to experimental infection with Besnoitia darlingi isolated from opossums (Didelphis virginiana)

Parasitology Research

Volumn 95, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 413-419

  Elsheikha, Hany M ^a   Rosenthal, Benjamin M ^b   Mansfield, Linda S ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEXAMETHASONE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SULFADIAZINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BESNOITIA DARLINGI; COCCIDIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; INOCULATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPOSSUM; OUTBRED STRAIN; PARASITE; PARASITE ISOLATION; PARASITOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE CULTURE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, OUTBRED STRAINS; COCCIDIOSIS; DEXAMETHASONE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; KIDNEY; LIVER; LUNG; MICE; OPOSSUMS; SARCOCYSTIDAE;

ANIMALIA; BESNOITIA; BESNOITIA DARLINGI; DIDELPHIDAE; DIDELPHIS VIRGINIANA; SARCOCYSTIDAE;

EID: 17644399797     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-004-1286-2     Document Type: Article

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