Mechanisms of Giardia lamblia differentiation into cysts

Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 294-304

  Luján, Hugo D ^a   Mowatt, Michael R ^b   Nash, Theodore E ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CÓRDOBA   (Argentina)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOGENESIS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; LIFE CYCLE; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; TROPHOZOITE;

EUKARYOTA; GIARDIA; GIARDIA INTESTINALIS; PROTOZOA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031417739     PISSN: 10922172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/.61.3.294-304.1997     Document Type: Review

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