| Autor: |
Mentz MB; Instituto de Ciências Básicas da Saúde, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil., Dallegrave E, Graeff-Teixeira C |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Zdroj: |
Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo [Rev Inst Med Trop Sao Paulo] 2010 Sep-Oct; Vol. 52 (5), pp. 267-8. |
| DOI: |
10.1590/s0036-46652010000500008 |
| Abstrakt: |
The gender of vertebrate hosts may affect the outcome of parasitic infections. An experimental murine infection with Angiostrongylus costaricensis was followed with determinations of body weight, fecal larval elimination, number and length of adult worms, number of macroscopic intestinal lesions, and mortality. Groups of male and female Swiss mice were infected with 10 3(rd)-stage A. costaricensis larvae per animal. The results indicate there are no significant differences related to gender of the host, except for higher length of worms developed in male mice. |
| Databáze: |
MEDLINE |
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