Imaging movement of malaria parasites during transmission by Anopheles mosquitoes

Cellular Microbiology

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 687-694

  Frischknecht, Friedrich ^a   Baldacci, Patricia ^a   Martin, Béatrice ^a   Zimmer, Christophe ^a   Thiberge, Sabine ^a   Olivo Marin, Jean Christophe ^a   Shorte, Spencer L ^a   Ménard, Robert ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANOPHELES; ANOPHELES STEPHENSI; ARTICLE; CELL INVASION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDING; HOST CELL; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IN VITRO STUDY; INOCULATION; LOCOMOTION; MALARIA; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PLASMODIUM; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REST; SALIVARY GLAND; SALIVATION; SPOROZOITE; TRANSPORT KINETICS; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INSECT VECTORS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MALARIA; MICE; MICROSCOPY; MOVEMENT; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; RATS; SALIVARY GLANDS;

ANOPHELES STEPHENSI; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 3042667026     PISSN: 14625814     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-5822.2004.00395.x     Document Type: Article

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