Multimammate rat (Mastomys natalensis), Tristram's jird (Meriones tristrami) and Wagner's gerbil (Gerbillus dasyurus) as laboratory models of acute neosporosis

Research in Veterinary Science

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 377-381

  Hurkova Hofmannova L ^a   Vaclavek P ^b   Skoric M ^a   Fictum, P ^a   Modry D ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY AND PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES   (Czech Republic)

^b State Veterinary Institute   (Czech Republic)

^c INSTITUTE OF PARASITOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Gerbil; Jird; Multimammate rat; Neospora caninum

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOAL DNA;

ACCESSORY SEX GLAND; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GERBIL; GERBILLUS DASYURUS; HEART MUSCLE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; INOCULATION; INTESTINE; LIVER; LUNG; MALE; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; MASTOMYS; MERIONES TRISTRAMI; NEOSPORA CANINUM; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; RAT; RODENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEROSA; SKELETAL MUSCLE; STOMACH; TACHYZOITE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMALS; COCCIDIOSIS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; FEMALE; GERBILLINAE; MALE; MURINAE; NEOSPORA;

ANIMALIA; GERBILLINAE; GERBILLUS DASYURUS; MASTOMYS; MASTOMYS NATALENSIS; MERIONES; MERIONES TRISTRAMI; MURINAE; NEOSPORA CANINUM; RODENTIA;

EID: 34147167215     PISSN: 00345288     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rvsc.2006.10.004     Document Type: Article

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