The large difference in infectivity for mice of Plasmodium berghei and Plasmodium yoelii sporozoites cannot be correlated with their ability to enter into hepatocytes

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 7-17

  Briones, Marcelo R S ^a   Tsuji, Moriya ^a   Nussenzweig, Victor ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Malaria; Plasmodium; RT PCR; Sporozoites

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CELL INVASION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; LIVER CELL; MALARIA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PLASMODIUM YOELII; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPOROZOITE;

ANIMALIA; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PLASMODIUM YOELII; PLASMODIUM YOELII NIGERIENSIS;

EID: 0029948122     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0166-6851(96)02574-1     Document Type: Article

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