Biology of microsporidian species infecting mammals

Advances in Parasitology

Volumn 40, Issue , 1998, Pages 283-320

  Didier, E S ^a   Snowden, K F ^a   Shadduck, J A ^a  

^a TULANE NATIONAL PRIMATE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL NUCLEUS; CELL VACUOLE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENCEPHALITOZOON; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; ENTEROCYTOZOON; GERMINATION; GROWTH; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HOST RESISTANCE; LIFE CYCLE; MAMMAL; MICROSPORIDA; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NOSEMA; PARASITE SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RIBOSOME;

ANIMALIA; ENCEPHALITOZOON; ENTEROCYTOZOON; EUKARYOTA; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA; MICROSPORIDIA; NOSEMA; PROKARYOTA; PROTOZOA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032472032     PISSN: 0065308X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0065-308X(08)60125-6     Document Type: Article

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