Ultrastructural assessment of Plasmodium falciparum in age-fractionated thalassaemic erythrocytes

Parasitology Research

Volumn 98, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 381-384

  Senok, A C ^a   Nelson, E A S ^b   Li, K ^b   Ismaeel, A R Y ^a   Olliaro, P ^c   Oppenheimer, S J ^d  

^a ARABIAN GULF UNIVERSITY   (Bahrain)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c TDR   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL DEGENERATION; CELL MATURATION; CELL NUCLEUS MEMBRANE; CYTOPLASM; ERYTHROCYTE; GROWTH; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PARASITE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIBOSOME; SCHIZONT; THALASSEMIA; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; ERYTHROCYTE AGING; ERYTHROCYTES; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; THALASSEMIA; TROPHOZOITES;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 33344479356     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-005-0061-3     Document Type: Article

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