Leishmania amazonensis: Long-Term cultivation of axenic amastigotes is associated to metacyclogenesis of promastigotes

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 58-62

  Cysne Finkelstein, Léa ^a   Temporal, Rosane Maria ^b   Alves, Fábio Aguiar ^b   Leon, Leonor L ^b  

^a Department of Protozoology ^*  (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMASTIGOTE; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; IN VITRO STUDY; LEISHMANIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMASTIGOTE;

LEISHMANIA AMAZONENSIS; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0032077665     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/expr.1998.4276     Document Type: Article

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