Parasite candidate vaccines: A warning from polymorphic Leishmania populations

Parasitology Today

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 265-266

  Guerbouj, S ^a   Guizani, I ^a   Victoir, K ^b   Le Ray, D ^b   Dujardin, J C ^b  

^a PASTEUR INSTITUTE OF TUNIS   (Tunisia)

^b INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; LEISHMANIA VACCINE;

ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; LEISHMANIA; LETTER; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PROTEIN DOMAIN;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIASIS; PROTOZOAN VACCINES; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0034214290     PISSN: 01694758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-4758(00)01682-3     Document Type: Letter

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