Murine neonatal infection provides an efficient model for congenital ocular toxoplasmosis

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 124, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 190-196

  Lahmar, Ibtissem ^a,d   Guinard, Marie ^a   Sauer, Arnaud ^a   Marcellin, Luc ^b   Abdelrahman, Tamer ^a   Roux, Michel ^c   Mousli, Marc ^a   Moussa, Adnan ^e   Babba, Hamouda ^d   Pfaff, Alexander W ^a   Candolfi, Ermanno ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF STRASBOURG   (France)

^c INSTITUT DE GÉNÉTIQUE ET DE BIOLOGIE MOLÉCULAIRE ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MONASTIR   (Tunisia)

^e FATTOUMA BOURGUIBA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Congenital toxoplasmosis; Eye; Mouse model; Ocular toxoplasmosis; Toxoplasma gondii

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN INFECTION; CONGENITAL TOXOPLASMOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MODEL; EYE INFECTION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INFECTION; NONHUMAN; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITEMIA; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERINATAL MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BRAIN; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DNA, PROTOZOAN; EYE; FEMALE; MALE; MICE; PARASITEMIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, PARASITIC; SPECIFIC PATHOGEN-FREE ORGANISMS; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, ANIMAL; TOXOPLASMOSIS, CEREBRAL; TOXOPLASMOSIS, OCULAR;

MURINAE; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 73449084040     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2009.09.010     Document Type: Article

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