Biochemical perspectives on paralysis and other forms of toxicoses caused by ticks

Parasitology

Volumn 129, Issue SUPPL., 2004, Pages

  Mans, B J ^a   Gothe, R ^a   Neitz, Albert W H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Evolution; Tick paralysis; Toxicoses; Toxins

Indexed keywords

INSECT VENOM; TOXIN;

ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTHROPOD; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEPOLARIZATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEVER; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PARALYSIS; PATHOGENESIS; POLYNEUROPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SALIVARY GLAND; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TICK BITE; TICK BORNE DISEASE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; EVOLUTION; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEASE INHIBITORS; TICK PARALYSIS; TICK TOXICOSES; TICKS; TOXINS, BIOLOGICAL;

ACARI;

EID: 2442461470     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182003004670     Document Type: Review

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