Time lapse video microscopy and ultrastructure of penetrating sporozoites, types 1 and 2 parasitophorous vacuoles, and the transformation of sporozoites to tachyzoites of the VEG strain of Toxoplasma gondii

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 565-574

  Speer, C A ^a   Dubey, J P ^a,b   Blixt, J A ^a   Prokop, K ^a  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CELL VACUOLE; NONHUMAN; SPOROZOITE; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VIDEORECORDER;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CELL LINE; CELL NUCLEUS; CYTOPLASM; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MICROSCOPY, PHASE-CONTRAST; MICROSCOPY, VIDEO; PULMONARY ARTERY; TIME FACTORS; TOXOPLASMA; VACUOLES;

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; BOVINAE; POTATO VIRUS M; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 0030737802     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3284226     Document Type: Article

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