Toxocara canis: Larval migration dynamics, detection of antibody reactivity to larval excretory-secretory antigens and clinical findings during experimental infection of gerbils (Meriones unguiculatus)

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 122, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-5

  Alba Hurtado, F ^a   Munoz Guzman M A ^a   Valdivia Anda, G ^a   Tortora J L ^a   Ortega Pierres, M G ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Experimental toxocariasis; Gerbils; Larva migrans; Toxocara canis

Indexed keywords

EXCRETORY SECRETORY ANTIGEN; PARASITE ANTIBODY; PARASITE ANTIGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIGEN ANTIBODY REACTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CARCASS; CEREBRAL TOXOCARIASIS; CIRCULATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EOSINOPHILIA; EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION; FEMALE; GERBIL; HOST; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INTESTINE; LARVA; LEUKOCYTE; LUNG; MALE; MIGRATORY SPECIES; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; MONGOLIA; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; OCULAR TOXOCARIASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOXOCARA CANIS; TOXOCARIASIS; VITREOUS BODY; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, HELMINTH; ANTIGENS, HELMINTH; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BRAIN; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOGS; FEMALE; GERBILLINAE; IMMUNITY, HUMORAL; INTESTINES; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LIVER; LUNG; MALE; MOVEMENT; TIME FACTORS; TOXOCARA CANIS; TOXOCARIASIS;

ANIMALIA; GERBILLINAE; MERIONES UNGUICULATUS; TOXOCARA; TOXOCARA CANIS;

EID: 64449083961     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2009.01.010     Document Type: Article

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