Experimental infection with Toxocara cati in BALB-c mice, migratory behaviour and pathological changes

Zoonoses and Public Health

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 198-205

  Cardillo, N ^a   Rosa, A ^a   Ribicich, M ^a   Lopez C ^a   Sommerfelt, I ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Experimental infection; Mice; Migratory pattern; Tissue lesions; Toxocara cati

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; EOSINOPHIL; EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INFLAMMATORY CELL; INFLAMMATORY INFILTRATE; LIVER; LUNG; LYMPHOCYTE; MOUSE; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PERICARDIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TOXOCARA; TOXOCARA CATI;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; AUTOPSY; BRAIN; CAT DISEASES; CATS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FECES; FEMALE; LARVA; LIVER; LUNG; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RODENT DISEASES; TIME FACTORS; TOXOCARA; TOXOCARIASIS;

MUS; TOXOCARA CATI;

EID: 64149109410     PISSN: 18631959     EISSN: 18632378     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1863-2378.2008.01182.x     Document Type: Article

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