Leishmania tropica: The identification and purification of metacyclic promastigotes and use in establishing mouse and hamster models of cutaneous and visceral disease

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 89, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 331-342

  Lira, Rosalia ^a   Méndez, Susana ^b   Carrera, Lucia ^a   Jaffe, Charles ^c   Neva, Franklin ^a   Sacks, David ^a,d  

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

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; HAMSTER; IMMUNOASSAY; IN VITRO STUDY; LEISHMANIA TROPICA; MACROPHAGE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE ISOLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMASTIGOTE; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS; VIRULENCE; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS;

ANIMALIA; CRICETINAE; LEISHMANIA TROPICA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0032128367     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/expr.1998.4283     Document Type: Article

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