Role of the long slender to short stumpy transition in the life cycle of the African trypanosomes

Kinetoplastid Biology and Disease

Volumn 2, Issue , 2003, Pages

  Seed, John Richard ^a   Wenck, Mary Anne ^a  

^a IL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBOHYDRATE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; HOST; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOSTIMULATION; LIFE CYCLE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITEMIA; PROBABILITY; SURVIVAL TIME; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMIASIS; TSETSE FLY;

EID: 0345473561     PISSN: 14759292     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-9292-2-3     Document Type: Article

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