Pathomorphologic Findings in Short-tailed Voles (Microtus Agrestis) Experimentally-infected with Frenkelia Microti

Overview

Journal J Wildl Dis

Specialty Veterinary Medicine

Date 1979 Apr 1

PMID 113563

Citations 2

Authors

O Geisel

E Kaiser

O Vogel

H E KRAMPITZ

M Rommel

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Abstract

Following oral infection of Microtus agrestis with sporocysts of Frenkelia microti, transient focal necrosis and cellular infiltrations in the liver, hyperplasia of lymphoid organs, and inflammatory infiltrations in the heart, pulmonary veins, skeletal muscles and brain occurred during the first asexual multiplication period of the parasite in the liver. Frenkelia cysts were first observed in the brain 23 days after infection.

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