The plastid in Plasmodium falciparum asexual blood stages: A three-dimensional ultrastructural analysis

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Volumn 150, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 283-295

  Hopkins, John ^c   Fowler, Ruth ^c   Krishna, Sanjeev ^a   Wilson, Iain ^b   Mitchell, Graham ^c   Bannister, Lawrence ^c  

^a ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM KNOWLESI;

EID: 0033213013     PISSN: 14344610     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1434-4610(99)70030-1     Document Type: Article

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