Experimental Toxoplasma gondii infection in striped skunk (Mephitis mephitis)

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 94, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 761-763

  Quirk, Travis ^a   Dubey, J P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOON ANTIBODY;

CYST; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MUSTELID; PARASITIC DISEASE; PROTOZOAN;

AGGLUTINATION TEST; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; BRADYZOITE; CARNIVORA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INOCULATION; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; TACHYZOITE; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

AGGLUTINATION TESTS; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; BRAIN; FEMALE; HEART; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MEPHITIDAE; MICE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MYOCARDIUM; TONGUE; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, ANIMAL;

ANIMALIA; MEPHITIDAE; MEPHITIS; MEPHITIS MEPHITIS; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 47349119377     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-1489R.1     Document Type: Article

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