A proposed density-dependent model of long slender to short stumpy transformation in the African trypanosomes

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 656-662

  Seed, John R ^a   Black, Samuel J ^a,b  

^a IL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY FORM; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; MORPHOLOGICAL CHANGE; TRYPANOSOME;

AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; LIFE CYCLE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARASITEMIA; POPULATION DENSITY; TRYPANOSOMA;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PARASITEMIA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI GAMBIENSE; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI RHODESIENSE; TRYPANOSOMIASIS, AFRICAN;

ANIMALIA; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

EID: 0030794271     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3284243     Document Type: Article

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