Litomosoides sigmodontis: A simple method to infect mice with L3 larvae obtained from the pleural space of recently infected jirds (Meriones unguiculatus)

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 123, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 95-98

  Hübner, Marc P ^a   Torrero, Marina N ^a   McCall, John W ^b   Mitre, Edward ^a  

^a UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Filariae; Helminth; Litomosoides sigmodontis; Nematode; Ornithonyssus bacoti; Tropical rat mite

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; INCUBATION TIME; LARVA; LITOMOSOIDES SIGMODONTIS; MOUSE; NEMATODE LIFE CYCLE STAGE; NEMATODIASIS; NONHUMAN; PERITONEUM; PLEURA CAVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RODENT;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; FILARIASIS; FILARIOIDEA; GERBILLINAE; LARVA; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MITES; PLEURAL CAVITY;

ACARI; LITOMOSOIDES SIGMODONTIS; MERIONES; MERIONES UNGUICULATUS; MUS; ORNITHONYSSUS BACOTI; RATTUS; RODENTIA; VERMES;

EID: 67949117115     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2009.05.009     Document Type: Article

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