Plasmodium gallinaceum: Differential killing of some mosquito stages of the parasite by insect defensin

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 103-112

  Shahabuddin, Mohammed ^a   Fields, Iesha ^a   Bulet, Philippe ^b   Hoffmann, Jules A ^b   Miller, Louis H ^a  

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

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFENSIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; IN VITRO STUDY; INSECT; LIFE CYCLE; NONHUMAN; OOCYST; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PLASMODIUM GALLINACEUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ZYGOTE;

AEDES AEGYPTI; AESHNA CYANEA; ANIMALIA; INSECTA; PHORMIA; PLASMODIUM GALLINACEUM; PROTOPHORMIA TERRAENOVAE; PROTOZOA; SARCOPHAGIDAE;

EID: 0032079138     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/expr.1998.4212     Document Type: Article

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