Kinetics of parasite burdens in blood and tissues during murine toxoplasmosis

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 131, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 372-376

  Djurković Djaković, Olgica ^a   Djokić, Vitomir ^a   Vujanić, Marija ^a   Živković, Tijana ^a   Bobić, Branko ^a   Nikolić, Aleksandra ^a   Slavić, Ksenija ^a   Klun, Ivana ^a   Ivović, Vladimir ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Murine infection; Parasitaemia; Parasite burdens; Real time PCR; Toxoplasma gondii

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOAL DNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DNA DETERMINATION; EXPERIMENTAL MOUSE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; INOCULATION; LIMIT OF DETECTION; LIVER; LUNG; MICROBIAL KINETICS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE LOAD; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PARASITEMIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SURVIVAL RATE; TACHYZOITE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DNA, PROTOZOAN; FEMALE; KINETICS; LIVER; LUNG; MICE; PARASITEMIA; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, ANIMAL; VIRULENCE;

MURINAE; MUS; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 84862586645     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2012.05.006     Document Type: Article

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