Plasmodium yoelii: Adverse outcome of non-lethal P. yoelii malaria during co-infection with Schistosoma mansoni in BALB/c mouse model

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 122, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 254-259

  Sangweme, Davison ^a   Shiff, Clive ^a   Kumar, Nirbhay ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

BALB c mice; Co infection; Patent infection; Plasmodium yoelii; PZQ, praziquantel; Schistosoma mansoni

Indexed keywords

CREMOPHOR; PRAZIQUANTEL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEPATOSPLENOMEGALY; MIXED INFECTION; MORTALITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM YOELII; PLASMODIUM YOELII INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMIASIS MANSONI; WORM INFECTION;

ANEMIA; ANIMALS; ANTHELMINTICS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; HEMATOCRIT; HEPATOMEGALY; MALARIA; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM YOELII; PRAZIQUANTEL; SCHISTOSOMIASIS MANSONI; SPLENOMEGALY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

MUS; PLASMODIUM YOELII; SCHISTOSOMA; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI;

EID: 65749114664     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2009.04.003     Document Type: Article

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