A tractable experimental model for study of human and animal scabies

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2010, Pages

  Mounsey, Kate ^a,b   Ho, Mei Fong ^a   Kelly, Andrew ^a   Willis, Charlene ^a,c   Pasay, Cielo ^a   Kemp, David J ^a   McCarthy, James S ^a   Fischer, Katja ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b MENZIES SCHOOL OF HEALTH RESEARCH   (Australia)

^c QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; DEXAFORT; DEXAMETHASONE; GLUCOCORTICOID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL WELFARE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BODY BUILD; BONE DEMINERALIZATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUSHING SYNDROME; DEPRESSION; DOMESTIC PIG; DRUG MEGADOSE; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GROWTH RETARDATION; HIRSUTISM; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; MITE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OBESITY; OSTEOPOROSIS; PHYLOGENY; PILOT STUDY; SARCOPTES SCABIEI; SCABIES; SIDE EFFECT; TENDON LESION; WEIGHT GAIN; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; DISEASE MODEL; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY; SWINE;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HUMANS; SARCOPTES SCABIEI; SCABIES; SWINE;

EID: 77957767275     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0000756     Document Type: Article

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