Structures of Toxoplasma gondii tachyzoites, bradyzoites, and sporozoites and biology and development of tissue cysts

Clinical Microbiology Reviews

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 267-299

  Dubey, J P ^a,d   Lindsay, D S ^b   Speer, C A ^c  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b CENTER FOR MOLECULAR MEDICINE AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^c MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYST; CYST RUPTURE; HUMAN; LIFE CYCLE; NONHUMAN; OOCYST; PREVALENCE; RELAPSE; REVIEW; SPOROZOITE; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

ANIMALIA; PROTOZOA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 0031958697     PISSN: 08938512     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/cmr.11.2.267     Document Type: Review

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