Green fluorescent protein-tagged Leishmania in phlebotomine sand flies

Journal of Medical Entomology

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 39-43

  Guevara, Palmira ^a   Pinto Santíni, Delia ^a   Rojas, Agustina ^b   Crisante, Gladys ^b   Añez, Nestor ^b   Ramirez, José Luis ^a  

^a FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS   (Venezuela)

^b FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

Green fluorescent Leishmania; Nonaxenic flies; Sand fly

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; PHOTOPROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; PARASITOLOGY; PSYCHODIDAE;

ANIMALS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HUMANS; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; PSYCHODIDAE;

EID: 0035229709     PISSN: 00222585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0022-2585-38.1.39     Document Type: Article

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