Microsporidian life cycles and diversity: The relationship between virulence and transmission

Microbes and Infection

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 381-388

  Dunn, Alison M ^a   Smith, Judith E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diversity; Life cycle; Microsporidia; Phylogeny; Transmission; Virulence

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; FEMINIZATION; HOST; HUMAN; INVERTEBRATE; LIFE CYCLE; MICROSPORIDA; MICROSPORIDIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PATHOGENICITY; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VERTEBRATE; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION;

INVERTEBRATA; MICROSPORIDIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0035036948     PISSN: 12864579     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1286-4579(01)01394-6     Document Type: Review

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