Toxoplasma gondii strain-specific transcript levels of SAG1 and their association with virulence

Parasitology Research

Volumn 82, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 715-719

  Windeck, Timo ^a   Gross, Uwe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE ANTIGEN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, PROTOZOAN; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, PROTOZOAN; TOXOPLASMA; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALIA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 0029791976     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004360050190     Document Type: Article

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