Toxoplasma gondii: Congenital transmission in a hamster model

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 122, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 140-144

  Freyre, A ^a   Fialho, C G ^b   Bigatti, L E ^b   Araujo, F A P ^b   Falcon J D ^a   Mendez, J ^c   Gonzalez M ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA REPÚBLICA   (Uruguay)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE LA REPÚBLICA   (Uruguay)

Author keywords

Congenital transmission; Hamster; Toxoplasma gondii

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BIRTH; BODY WEIGHT; CONGENITAL TOXOPLASMOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FEMALE; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; HAMSTER; INFECTION RATE; INOCULATION; MALE; MILK; NEWBORN; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; PLACENTA DEVELOPMENT; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; CATS; CRICETINAE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; MESOCRICETUS; MICE; MILK; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, PARASITIC; PREGNANCY TESTS; TOXOPLASMOSIS, ANIMAL; TOXOPLASMOSIS, CONGENITAL;

CRICETINAE; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 67349118483     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2009.02.004     Document Type: Article

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