Effects of gamma radiation on Brugia malayi infective larvae and their intracellular Wolbachia bacteria

Parasitology Research

Volumn 97, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 219-227

  Rao, R ^a   Moussa, H ^a   Vanderwaal, R P ^b   Sampson, E ^a   Atkinson, L J ^a   Weil, G J ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; CESIUM 137; MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; BRUGIA MALAYI; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUTICLE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; GAMMA RADIATION; GROWTH INHIBITION; GROWTH RETARDATION; INJECTION; LARVA; MICROFILARIASIS; MOLTING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WOLBACHIA; WORM;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BRUGIA MALAYI; DNA, BACTERIAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FILARIASIS; GAMMA RAYS; GERBILLINAE; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; LARVA; PARASITEMIA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VACCINATION; WOLBACHIA;

ANIMALIA; BRUGIA MALAYI; MERIONES; NEMATODA; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 27544474220     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-005-1421-8     Document Type: Article

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