Transient and stable transfection of Leishmania by particle bombardment

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 94, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 123-126

  Sbicego, Sandro ^a   Schnaufer, Achim ^a   Blum, Beat ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Biolistic transformation; Kinetoplastida; Leishmania tarentolae; glucuronidase

Indexed keywords

BETA GLUCURONIDASE;

BIOLISTIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; KINETOPLAST; LEISHMANIA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY;

EID: 0032128180     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(98)00061-9     Document Type: Article

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