Malaria parasites in mosquitoes: Laboratory models, evolutionary temptation and the real world

Trends in Parasitology

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 445-447

  Boëte, Christophe ^a,b,c  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c KILIMANJARO CHRISTIAN MEDICAL CENTRE   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEDES AEGYPTI; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; COEVOLUTION; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MALARIA; NONHUMAN; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PLASMODIUM GALLINACEUM; SHORT SURVEY; SURVIVAL RATE; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; UPREGULATION; VIRUS PARTICLE;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; MALARIA; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; RATS;

ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI;

EID: 24744461336     PISSN: 14714922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pt.2005.08.012     Document Type: Short Survey

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