Giardia duodenalis: Kinetics of cyst elimination and the systemic humoral and intestinal secretory immune responses in gerbils (Meriones unguiculatus) experimentally infected

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 125, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 297-303

  Amorim, R M R ^a   Silva, D A O ^a   Taketomi, E A ^a   Morato, M G V A ^a   Mundim, M J S ^a   Ribeiro, D P ^a   Oliveira, T C ^a   Viana, J C ^b   Gomes, M A ^b   Cury, M C ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF UBERLÂNDIA   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Giardia duodenalis; Immune response; Meriones unguiculatus

Indexed keywords

HUMORAL ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G1 ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G2A ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYST (RESTING STAGE); FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GERBIL; GIARDIA DUODENALIS; GIARDIASIS; IMMUNOASSAY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; INOCULATION; INTESTINE SECRETION; MALE; MERIONES UNGUICULATUS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TROPHOZOITE;

ANIMALIA; GERBILLINAE; GIARDIA INTESTINALIS; MERIONES UNGUICULATUS;

EID: 77952584208     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2010.02.007     Document Type: Article

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