Intestinal growth and pathology of Giardia duodenalis assemblage subtype AI, AII, B and e in the gerbil model

Parasitology

Volumn 139, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 424-433

  Benere E ^a   Van Assche, T ^a   Van Ginneken, C ^a   Peulen, O ^b   Cos, P ^a   Maes, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

AII; assemblage subtypes AI; B and E; gerbil model; growth dynamics; lab and field isolates; virulence

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; DISACCHARIDASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; BRUSH BORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FECES ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GERBIL; GIARDIA DUODENALIS; GIARDIASIS; INFLAMMATORY INFILTRATE; INTESTINE MUCOSA; MALE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOGENICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TROPHOZOITE;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FECES; GENOTYPE; GERBILLINAE; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; GIARDIASIS; HUMANS; INTESTINE, SMALL; MALE; TROPHOZOITES; VIRULENCE;

GERBILLINAE; GIARDIA; GIARDIA INTESTINALIS;

EID: 84858842240     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: 14698161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182011002137     Document Type: Article

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