Immunization of Wistar female rats with 255-Gy-irradiated Toxoplasma gondii: Preventing parasite load and maternofoetal transmission

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 145, Issue , 2014, Pages 157-163

  Camossi, Lucilene Granuzzio ^a   Fornazari, Felipe ^a   Richini Pereira, Virgínia Bodelão ^a   da Silva, Rodrigo Costa ^a   Cardia, Daniel Fontana Ferreira ^a   Langoni, Helio ^a  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Immunization; Parasite load; Toxoplasmosis; Wistar rats; Zoonosis

Indexed keywords

DNA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII VACCINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; PROTOZOON ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIRTH; BIRTH RATE; BRADYZOITE; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FORELIMB; HEART; HINDLIMB; IMMUNIZATION; LITTER SIZE; LIVER; LUNG; MALE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; OOCYST; PARASITE LOAD; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; SPLEEN; TACHYZOITE; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS; ANIMAL; BLOOD; GERMFREE ANIMAL; IMMUNOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; PERITONEAL CAVITY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, PARASITIC; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; RADIATION RESPONSE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, ANIMAL; TRANSMISSION; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; VISCERA; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; BRAIN; FEMALE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PARASITE LOAD; PERITONEAL CAVITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, PARASITIC; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIFIC PATHOGEN-FREE ORGANISMS; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, ANIMAL; VISCERA;

EID: 84908418631     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2014.08.012     Document Type: Article

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