Experimental infection of Peromyscus californicus with Toxoplasma gondii

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 93, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1360-1364

  Dabritz, Haydee A ^a,b   Miller, Melissa A ^a,c   Packham, Andrea E ^a   Rejmanek, Daniel ^a   Leutenegger, Christian M ^a,d   Gardner, Ian A ^a   Atwill, E Robert ^a   Conrad, Patricia A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Yolo County Health Department   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND GAME   (United States)

^d IDEXX LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PARASITE ANTIBODY;

DNA; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MUSTELID; PARASITE; PROTOZOAN; RODENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; BICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; BRAIN; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HEART; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIVER; LUNG; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEROLOGY; SPLEEN; TACHYZOITE; TONGUE; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; BRAIN; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; DNA, PROTOZOAN; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; HEART; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; OTTERS; PEROMYSCUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RODENT DISEASES; SPLEEN; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, ANIMAL;

ENHYDRA LUTRIS NEREIS; MUS; PEROMYSCUS CALIFORNICUS; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 38849099156     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-1210.1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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