Brain schistosomiasis in mice experimentally infected with Schistosoma mansoni

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 251-253

  Lambertucci, José Roberto ^a,c   Fidelis, Thiago André ^a,c   Pereira, Thiago Almeida ^a,b,c   Coelho, Paulo Marcos Zech ^c   Araujo, Neuza ^c   de Souza, Márcia Maria ^b,c   Brasileiro Filho, Geraldo ^a,c   Pereira, Fausto Edmundo Lima ^c,d   Antunes, Carlos Mauricio ^c,e  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF ESPÍRITO SANTO   (Brazil)

^e Hospital Santa Casa de Misericórdia de Belo Horizonte   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Brain schistosomiasis; Experimental neuroschistosomiasis; Schistosomiasis

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOMPHALARIA GLABRATA; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; GRANULOMA; HEMIPLEGIA; MALE; MOUSE; NEUROSCHISTOSOMIASIS; NONHUMAN; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; URINE RETENTION; WORM EGG;

ANIMALS; BRAIN DISEASES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; NEUROSCHISTOSOMIASIS; PARASITE EGG COUNT; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMIASIS MANSONI;

EID: 84901260142     PISSN: 00378682     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/0037-8682-0083-2013     Document Type: Article

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