A brief illustrated guide to the ultrastructure of Plasmodium falciparum asexual blood stages

Parasitology Today

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 427-433

  Bannister, L H ^a   Hopkins, J M ^a   Fowler, R E ^b   Krishna, S ^c   Mitchell, G H ^b  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Malaria Laboratory   (United Kingdom)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOSKELETON; CYTOSOL; GOLGI COMPLEX; MEROZOITE; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; REVIEW; RIBOSOME; SCHIZONT; TROPHOZOITE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; ERYTHROCYTES; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; ORGANELLES; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 0034307484     PISSN: 01694758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-4758(00)01755-5     Document Type: Review

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