Trypanosoma brucei genomics and the challenge of identifying drug and vaccine targets

Trends in Microbiology

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 322-329

  Agbo, Eddy C ^a,e   Majiwa, Phelix A O ^b   Büscher, Philippe ^c   Claassen, Eric ^d   Te Pas, Marinus F W ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b INTERNATIONAL LIVESTOCK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^c INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^d ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACYL CARRIER PROTEIN; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE; GLYCOPROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; RNA;

ALLELE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CYTOSOLIC FRACTION; DNA MICROARRAY; DNA PROBE; DRUG TARGETING; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC CROSS; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; INDUCED MUTATION; KNOCKOUT GENE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA RHODESIENSE; VACCINATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PROTOZOA; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI RHODESIENSE;

EID: 0142155710     PISSN: 0966842X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0966-842X(03)00151-3     Document Type: Review

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