Rodent malaria parasites suffer from the presence of conspecific clones in three-clone Plasmodium chabaudi infections

Parasitology

Volumn 127, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 411-418

  De Roode, J C ^a   Read, A F ^a   Chan, B H K ^a   Mackinnon, M J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Competition; Evolution; Malaria; Mixed infections; Plasmodium chabaudi; Virulence

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ACUTE PHASE RESPONSE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLONE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INOCULATION; MALARIA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE EXAMINATION; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PLASMODIUM CHABAUDI; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RODENT;

ANIMALS; CLONE CELLS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ERYTHROCYTES; FEMALE; MALARIA; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM CHABAUDI; VIRULENCE; WEIGHT LOSS;

ANIMALIA; PLASMODIUM CHABAUDI; PROTOZOA; RODENTIA;

EID: 0344011645     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182003004001     Document Type: Article

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