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SUBMITTER: Ware MW
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6574229 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ware Michael W MW Villegas Eric N EN
Veterinary parasitology 20190305
This study developed and evaluated Giardia duodenalis cyst propagation using a dexamethasone immunosuppressed CF-1 mouse model as an alternative to a previously described Mongolian gerbil model. The CF-1 mouse model shed significantly more cysts per animal during a 16-18 h collection period compared to the gerbil (averages: 7.8 × 10<sup>6</sup> cysts/CF-1 mouse and 2.5 × 10<sup>6</sup> cysts/gerbil). In addition, the patency period for this model differed from both G. muris in mice and G. duoden ...[more]