BEHAVIORAL AND MEMORY CHANGES IN Mus musculus COINFECTED BY Toxocara canis AND Toxoplasma gondii

Several researchers have stated that parasites can alter the behavior of their hosts, in order to increase the transmission rate, principally when prey-predator relationships are a reliable way of infection transmission. The aim of this study was to verify the occurrence of changes in anxiety and sh...

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Main Authors: Flávia Motta Corrêa, Pedro Paulo Chieffi, Susana A. Zevallos Lescano, Sergio Vieira dos Santos
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade de São Paulo 2014-07-01
Series:Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0036-46652014000400353&lng=en&tlng=en