A simple and reproducible method to obtain large numbers of axenic amastigotes of different Leishmania species

Parasitology Research

Volumn 88, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 963-968

  Teixeira, Márcia ^a,c   De Jesus Santos, Regilene ^a   Sampaio, Romina ^a   Pontes de Carvalho, Lain ^a   Dos Santos, Washington L ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^b Laboratório Central de Saúde Pública Professor Gonçalo Moniz LACEN BA   (Brazil)

^c ESCOLA BAHIANA DE MEDICINA E SAÚDE PÚBLICA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; PROTEIN;

AMASTIGOTE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; LEISHMANIA BRAZILIENSIS; LEISHMANIA CHAGASI; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE CULTIVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMASTIGOTE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CRICETINAE; CULTURE MEDIA; HUMANS; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIASIS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; PARASITOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

ANIMALIA; LEISHMANIA AMAZONENSIS; LEISHMANIA BRAZILIENSIS; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI CHAGASI; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0036401219     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-002-0695-3     Document Type: Article

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