Leishmania major: Effect of repeated passages through sandfly vectors or murine hosts

Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology

Volumn 93, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 599-611

  Sadlova J ^a   Svobodova M ^a   Volf, P ^a  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIPOPHOSPHOGLYCAN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; HEMAGGLUTINATION; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LYMPH NODE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VECTOR; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PHLEBOTOMUS; PROMASTIGOTE; PSYCHODIDAE;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; GLYCOSPHINGOLIPIDS; INSECT VECTORS; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; PSYCHODIDAE; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALIA; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; MURINAE; PHLEBOTOMINAE; PHLEBOTOMUS PAPATASI; PROTOZOA; PSYCHODIDAE;

EID: 0032852543     PISSN: 00034983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00034989958104     Document Type: Article

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