Transfection and malaria

Nature Medicine

Volumn 1, Issue 8, 1995, Pages 745-747

  Wesson, Dawn M ^a   Krogstad, Donald J ^a  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENETIC TRANSFECTION; MALARIA; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY;

ANIMAL; ANOPHELES; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSECT VECTORS; MALARIA; PLASMODIUM; RESEARCH; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 0029111576     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: 1546170X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nm0895-745     Document Type: Article

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