Age-influenced population kinetics and immunological responses of Leishmania donovani in hamsters

Parasitology Research

Volumn 101, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 919-924

  Singh, Nasib ^a   Samant, Mukesh ^a   Gupta, Shraddha K ^a   Kumar, Awanish ^a   Dube, Anuradha ^a  

^a CENTRAL DRUG RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PARASITE ANTIBODY;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; HAMSTER; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFECTION RESISTANCE; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; INFESTATION; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; MALE; NONHUMAN; PARASITOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN WEIGHT;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; CRICETINAE; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; KINETICS; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; LEISHMANIASIS, VISCERAL; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MACROPHAGES, PERITONEAL; MALE; MESOCRICETUS; SPLEEN;

ANIMALIA; CRICETINAE; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; MESOCRICETUS AURATUS;

EID: 34547810003     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-007-0562-3     Document Type: Article

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