Entamoeba invadens: Characterization of cysteine proteinases

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 84-91

  Sharma, Manoj ^a,b   Hirata, Ken ^a   Herdman, Scott ^a   Reed, Sharon ^a  

^a UCSD MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE PROTEINASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTAMOEBA; ENZYME ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL;

ANIMALIA; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; ENTAMOEBA INVADENS; PROTOZOA; REPTILIA;

EID: 0030272685     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/expr.1996.0092     Document Type: Article

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