Wolbachia bacterial endosymbionts of filarial nematodes

Advances in Parasitology

Volumn 60, Issue , 2005, Pages 245-284

  Taylor, Mark J ^a   Bandi, Claudio ^b   Hoerauf, Achim ^c  

^a LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIFILARIAL AGENT; BENZIMIDAZOLE; DIETHYLCARBAMAZINE; DOXYCYCLINE; IVERMECTIN; OXYTETRACYCLINE; RIFAMPICIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTHROPOD; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIROFILARIA; ENDOSYMBIONT; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; FILARIA; FILARIASIS; FILARIOIDEA; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMICS; GROWTH; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ONCHOCERCIASIS; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATHOGENESIS; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEROLOGY; SYMBIOSIS; TAXONOMY; WOLBACHIA;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ARTHROPODS; DOGS; DOXYCYCLINE; ENVIRONMENT; FILARIASIS; GENOMICS; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION MEDIATORS; NEMATODA; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SYMBIOSIS; WOLBACHIA;

ARTHROPODA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DIROFILARIA; FILARIA; FILARIOIDEA; NEMATODA; VERMES; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 26844459599     PISSN: 0065308X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0065-308X(05)60004-8     Document Type: Review

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