Axenic cultivation and partial characterization of Leishmania braziliensis amastigote-like stages

Parasitology

Volumn 116, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 103-113

  Balanco, J M F ^a   Pral, E M F ^a   Da Silva, S ^b   Bijovsky, A T ^a   Mortara, R A ^b   Alfieri, S C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Amastigote like forms; Axenic amastigotes; Leishmania braziliensis; Protozoa

Indexed keywords

AMASTIGOTE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GROWTH CURVE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; LEISHMANIA BRAZILIENSIS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE CULTIVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; AGGLUTINATION TESTS; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; BLOTTING, WESTERN; GERM-FREE LIFE; LEISHMANIA BRAZILIENSIS; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; MACROPHAGES; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; RATS; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ANIMALIA; ARACHIS HYPOGAEA; LEISHMANIA BRAZILIENSIS; LENS CULINARIS; PROTOZOA; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 0031974764     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S003118209700214X     Document Type: Article

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