Long-term passage of tachyzoites in tissue culture can attenuate virulence of Neospora caninum in vivo

Parasitology

Volumn 133, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 421-432

  Bartley, P M ^a   Wright, S ^a   Sales, J ^b   Chianini, F ^a   Buxton, D ^a   Innes, E A ^a  

^a MOREDUN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b BIOMATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS SCOTLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attenuation in vivo; In vitro culture; Neospora caninum

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER 1;

ADAPTATION; ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GROWTH RATE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO CULTURE; MOUSE; NEOSPORA CANINUM; NEOSPOROSIS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PARASITE SURVIVAL; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PARASITOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE CULTURE;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; COCCIDIOSIS; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; NEOSPORA; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SERIAL PASSAGE; TIME FACTORS; VIRULENCE;

MURINAE; NEOSPORA CANINUM;

EID: 33750205145     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: 14698161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182006000539     Document Type: Article

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