Dressed for success: The surface coats of insect-borne protozoan parasites

Trends in Microbiology

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 128-134

  Roditi, Isabel ^a   Liniger, Matthias ^a  

^a Institut für Zellbiologie IZB   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCOSYLPHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL; LIPOPHOSPHOGLYCAN; PROTEIN; PROTEIN P25; PROTEIN P28; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS; CRITHIDIA; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LEISHMANIASIS; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; NONHUMAN; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITE VECTOR; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES INVASION; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

ANIMALS; DIPTERA; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; PLASMODIUM; PROTOZOAN INFECTIONS; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; TRYPANOSOMATINA;

CRITHIDIA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; MAMMALIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOA; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

EID: 0036498581     PISSN: 0966842X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0966-842X(02)02309-0     Document Type: Review

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