SUSCEPTIBILITY AND MORBIDITY BETWEEN MALE AND FEMALE SWISS MICE INFECTED WITH Angiostrongylus costaricensis

被引：1

作者：

Mentz, Marcia B. ^{[1
]}

Dallegrave, Eliane ^{[1
]}

Graeff-Teixeira, Carlos ^{[2
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Fed Rio Grande do Sul, Inst Ciencias Basicas Saude, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil

[2] Pontificia Univ Catolica Rio Grande do Sul, Grp Parasitol Biomed, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil

来源：

REVISTA DO INSTITUTO DE MEDICINA TROPICAL DE SAO PAULO | 2010年 / 52卷 / 05期

关键词：

Metastrongyloidea; Angiostrongylus costaricensis; Gender; Sex; Murine; WILD RODENTS; RESPONSES; IMMUNITY; CESPEDES; STRAINS; MORERA; HOSTS;

D O I：

10.1590/S0036-46652010000500008

中图分类号：

R51 [传染病];

学科分类号：

100401 ;

摘要：

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.

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