Survival periods in male and female Wistar rats with steroid‐induced Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia
- 1 January 1989
- Vol. 97 (1-6) , 556-558
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1699-0463.1989.tb00830.x
Abstract
Rats treated with corticosteroids developed Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia. Male rats showed the same mortality (100%) as female rats, but the female rats survived on average 11.7 days longer than the male Wistar rats.Keywords
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