Temporal distribution and parasite load kinetics in blood and tissues during Neospora caninum infection in mice

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 2491-2494

  Collantes Fernández, Esther ^a   López Pérez, Inmaculada ^a   Álvarez García, Gema ^a   Ortega Mora, Luis M ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; FEMALE; KINETICS; MOUSE; NEOSPORA CANINUM; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PARASITEMIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; BRAIN; CHRONIC DISEASE; COCCIDIOSIS; FEMALE; KINETICS; LIVER; LUNG; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; NEOSPORA; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; SPLEEN;

EID: 33645525107     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.74.4.2491-2494.2006     Document Type: Article

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