Control of tsetse flies and trypanosomes using molecular genetics

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 115, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 125-145

  Aksoy, Serap ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

African trypanosomiasis; Commensal symbiont; Symbiosis; Transgenesis; Tsetse flies

Indexed keywords

DIMINAZENE ACETURATE; EFLORNITHINE; ETHIDIUM; ISOMETAMIDIUM; MELARSOPROL; ORNITHINE DECARBOXYLASE INHIBITOR; PENTAMIDINE; PEPTIDE; PROTOZOAL VACCINE; RECOMBINANT DNA; SURAMIN;

AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; CATTLE DISEASE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DNA MODIFICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC MANIPULATION; GENETIC TRAIT; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HOST RESISTANCE; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RATE; INSECT CONTROL; INTESTINE FLORA; LIFE CYCLE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITE VECTOR; SIDE EFFECT; SYMBIONT; TRANSGENICS; TRYPANOSOMA; TSETSE FLY;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DIPTERA; GLOSSINA (PROPER); GLOSSINIDAE; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0142107357     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-4017(03)00203-6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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