The eye does not see what the mind does not know: The bacterium in the worm

Perspectives in Biology and Medicine

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 31-41

  Rajan, Thiruchandurai V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLCHICINE;

CLINICAL FEATURE; ELEPHANTIASIS; ENDOSYMBIONT; EVOLUTION; FILARIA; FILARIASIS; GOUT; HUMAN; LYMPHEDEMA; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; WOLBACHIA; WORM;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FILARIA; HEXAPODA; NEMATODA; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 12744261568     PISSN: 00315982     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/pbm.2005.0015     Document Type: Review

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