Low prevalence of chagas parasite infection in a nonhuman primate colony in Louisiana

Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 443-447

  Dorn, Patricia L ^a   Daigle, Megan E ^a   Combe, Crescent L ^a   Tate, Ashley H ^a   Stevens, Lori ^c   Phillippi Falkenstein, Kathrine M ^b  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TULANE NATIONAL PRIMATE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHAGAS DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM COLONY; PARASITE ISOLATION; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PREVALENCE; PRIMATE DISEASE; SERODIAGNOSIS; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; CHAGAS DISEASE; DNA, PROTOZOAN; LOUISIANA; MACACA NEMESTRINA; MALE; PARASITEMIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIMATE DISEASES; PRIMATES; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ANIMALIA; HEXAPODA; MACACA NEMESTRINA; MAMMALIA; PRIMATES; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 84864423483     PISSN: 15596109     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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