Concomitant immunity in a rodent model of filariasis: The infection of Meriones unguiculatus with Acanthocheilonema viteae

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 41-45

  Rajakumar, Sethu ^a   Bleiss, Wilfrid ^a   Hartmann, Susanne ^a   Schierack, Peter ^a   Marko, Anorte ^a   Lucius, Richard ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; FILARIASIS; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; IMMUNITY; PARASITE; POPULATION DENSITY; RODENT;

ACANTHOCHEILONEMA VITEAE; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EOSINOPHILIC GRANULOMA; FEMALE; FILARIA; FILARIASIS; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HOST RESISTANCE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNITY; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RESISTANCE; MALE; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY; SUPERINFECTION;

ANIMALS; DIPETALONEMA; DIPETALONEMA INFECTIONS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; GERBILLINAE; LARVA; MALE; POPULATION DENSITY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TIME FACTORS;

ACANTHOCHEILONEMA VITEAE; ANIMALIA; FILARIA; MERIONES; MERIONES UNGUICULATUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 33645538378     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-3507.1     Document Type: Article

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