Leishmania (Leishmania) amazonensis infection and dissemination in mice inoculated with stationary-phase or with purified metacyclic promastigotes

Parasitology

Volumn 134, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1699-1707

  Felizardo, T C ^a   Toma, L S ^a   Borges, N B ^a   Lima, G M C A ^a,b   Abrahamsohn, I A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF GOIÁS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Dissemination; Leishmania amazonensis; Metacyclic promastigotes; Parasitism; Resistant mice; Stationary phase promastigotes; Susceptible mice

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; C57BL MOUSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEMALE; FOOT PAD; INFECTION RESISTANCE; INOCULATION; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIASIS; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMASTIGOTE;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; COMPLEMENT SYSTEM PROTEINS; CYTOKINES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIASIS; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; LYMPH NODES; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS;

LEISHMANIA AMAZONENSIS; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; MUS; PROTOZOA;

EID: 34948864354     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: 14698161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182007003186     Document Type: Article

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