Experimental infection of two South American reservoirs with four distinct strains of Trypanosoma cruzi

Parasitology

Volumn 137, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 959-966

  Roellig, Dawn M ^a   McMillan, Katherine ^a   Ellis, Angela E ^a   Vandeberg, John L ^b   Champagne, Donald E ^c   Yabsley, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b SOUTHWEST NATIONAL PRIMATE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Degu; Experimental infection; Grey short tailed opossum; Infection dynamics; Reservoir host; Trypanosoma cruzi; Trypanosome

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHAGAS DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIDELPHIS VIRGINIANA; EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION; GENOTYPE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; MONODELPHIS DOMESTICA; NONHUMAN; OCTODON; OCTODON DEGUS; OPOSSUM; PARASITEMIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACCOON; RESERVOIR; SOUTH AMERICA; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPANOSOMIASIS; TRYPOMASTIGOTE;

ANIMALS; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; GENOTYPE; OCTODON; OPOSSUMS; PARASITEMIA; SOUTH AMERICA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPANOSOMIASIS; ZOONOSES;

DIDELPHIS VIRGINIANA; METATHERIA; MONODELPHIS; MONODELPHIS DOMESTICA; OCTODON DEGUS; PROCYON; PROCYON LOTOR; TRIATOMA INFESTANS; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 77953616302     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: 14698161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182009991995     Document Type: Article

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