Virulence in Trypanosoma cruzi infection correlates with the expression of a distinct family of sialidase superfamily genes

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 98, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 105-116

  Weston, David ^a   Patel, Bhavesha ^b   Van Voorhis, Wesley C ^b  

^a SEATTLE BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Sialidase; SIRE; Surface antigens; Trypanosoma cruzi; Virulence factors

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE ANTIGEN; SIALIDASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; HYBRIDIZATION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PARASITEMIA; POLYADENYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CAUSALITY; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FEMALE; GENES, PROTOZOAN; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NEURAMINIDASE; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; PARASITEMIA; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SIALYLTRANSFERASES; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; VIRULENCE;

TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 0032957545     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(98)00152-2     Document Type: Article

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