Leishmania amazonensis: Cultivation and characterization of axenic amastigote-like organisms

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 94-105

  Hodgkinson, V H ^a,b   Soong, Lynn ^a   Duboise, S Monroe ^a,c   McMahon Pratt, Diane ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Axenic amastigote; Immunofluorescence; Leishmania amazonensis; Morphology; Northern blot; Protozoa, parasitic; Western blot

Indexed keywords

AMASTIGOTE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; LEISHMANIA; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PARASITE CULTIVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0030176285     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/expr.1996.0053     Document Type: Article

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