Toxoplasma gondii: Detection by mouse bioassay, histopathology, and polymerase chain reaction in tissues from experimentally infected pigs

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 113, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 267-271

  Garcia, João Luis ^a   Gennari, Solange Maria ^b   Machado, Rosângela Zacarias ^c   Navarro, Italmar Teodorico ^d  

^a Universidade Estadual   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^d STATE UNIVERSITY OF LONDRINA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Apicomplexa; deoxyribonucleic acid; DNA; HE; hematoxylin eosin; Histopathology; IFA; IM; indirect immunofluorescence assay; intramuscular; Mouse bioassay; PCR; Pigs; polymerase chain reaction; Protozoa; Toxoplasma gondii

Indexed keywords

BUFFER; PROTOZOAL DNA; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAPHRAGM MUSCLE; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA EXTRACTION; EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MASSETER MUSCLE; MUSCLE TISSUE; NONHUMAN; OOCYST; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE ISOLATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SWINE; TISSUE SECTION; TONGUE; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; BRAIN; DNA, PROTOZOAN; FEMALE; MALE; MICE; MUSCLES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, ANIMAL;

ANIMALIA; SUS SCROFA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 33746225408     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2006.02.001     Document Type: Article

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